{"id":16345,"date":"2018-05-28T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T19:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=16345"},"modified":"2018-05-28T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T19:02:13","slug":"today-remembering-the-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/today-remembering-the-fallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: Remembering the Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/resizer\/nmSUsZWABb6RZXnPTYYGcuAL0jk=\/1200x0\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5b0be33d\/turbine\/la-me-todays-headlines-20180528' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>One of the best ways to remember those who have fallen for our freedom would be to stop sending our sons and daughters off to needless wars. Never has America been in a state of war for so long. 17 years of undeclared, but fully funded war under the guise of the &#8220;war on terror&#8221;, is really just a decision made by our leaders, to preemptively invade foreign countries of our choosing without the permission of the American people, all the while making huge profits for the most generous &#8220;campaign donors&#8221; of all: The defense and arms industry.<br \/>\nThere is no larger arms dealer in the world than the US Government. I mean, without a constant state of war, who would keep buying all those weapons?<br \/>\n#HappyMemorialDay<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;Today: Remembering the Fallen&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/newsletters\/la-me-todays-headlines-20180528-story.html\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/newsletters\/la-me-todays-headlines-20180528-story.html<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways to remember those who have fallen for our freedom would be to stop sending our sons and daughters off to needless wars. Never has America been in a state of war for so long. 17 years of undeclared, but fully funded war under the guise of the &#8220;war on terror&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-16345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16944,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/defiant-john-bolton-signals-no-way-back-for-arms-control-treaty-after-vladimir-putin-meeting\/","url_meta":{"origin":16345,"position":0},"title":"Defiant John Bolton signals no way back for arms control treaty after Vladimir Putin meeting","date":"October 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Cold War Two. 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