{"id":913,"date":"2006-11-11T13:19:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T18:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=913"},"modified":"2006-11-11T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T18:19:26","slug":"on-veterans-day-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"On Veteran&#039;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1983 CBS aired a <i>Peanuts<\/i> special, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/What_Have_We_Learned,_Charlie_Brown%3F\"><i>What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown<\/i><\/a>.  In the film <i>Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don&#8217;t Come Back)<\/i> Charlie Brown, Linus, Pepperment Pattie, Marcie, and Snoopy went to France.  <i>What Have We Learned<\/i> picks up shortly thereafter, with the kids visiting Flanders and the beaches of Normandy where they reflect upon the sacrifices made by soldiers and the tragedies of war.  What I remember, at the span of nearly a quarter of a century, is Linus reciting John McCrae&#8217;s &#8220;In Flanders Fields&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In Flanders fields the poppies blow<br \/>\nBetween the crosses, row on row,<br \/>\nThat mark our place; and in the sky<br \/>\nThe larks, still bravely singing, fly<br \/>\nScarce heard amid the guns below.<\/p>\n<p>We are the Dead. Short days ago<br \/>\nWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<br \/>\nLoved, and were loved, and now we lie<br \/>\nIn Flanders fields.<\/p>\n<p>Take up our quarrel with the foe:<br \/>\nTo you from failing hands we throw<br \/>\nThe torch; be yours to hold it high.<br \/>\nIf ye break faith with us who die<br \/>\nWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow<br \/>\nIn Flanders fields.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;What have we learned, Charlie Brown?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1983 CBS aired a Peanuts special, What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown. In the film Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don&#8217;t Come Back) Charlie Brown, Linus, Pepperment Pattie, Marcie, and Snoopy went to France. What Have We Learned picks up shortly thereafter, with the kids visiting Flanders and the beaches of Normandy where they<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=913\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Veteran&#039;s Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[4110,321,14],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-history","tag-veterans-day","tag-world-war-i","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}