{"id":677637,"date":"2022-05-30T08:55:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=244725"},"modified":"2022-05-30T08:55:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:55:02","slug":"memorial-day-salute-to-a-repentant-ex-marine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/30\/memorial-day-salute-to-a-repentant-ex-marine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Salute To  A Repentant Ex-Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI spent 33 years and 4 months in active service as a member of our country\u2019s most agile military force\u2014the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from a second lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/30\/memorial-day-salute-to-a-repentant-ex-marine\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/30\/memorial-day-salute-to-a-repentant-ex-marine\/\">Memorial Day Salute To  A Repentant Ex-Marine<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/30\/memorial-day-salute-to-a-repentant-ex-marine\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI spent 33 years and 4 months in active service as a member of our country\u2019s most agile military force\u2014the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from a second lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time bein&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678055,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677637\/revisions\/678055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}