{"id":2942,"date":"2014-11-09T23:11:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T03:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2014-11-09T23:11:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T03:11:47","slug":"a-confluence-of-historical-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/a-confluence-of-historical-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"A CONFLUENCE OF HISTORICAL ANNIVERSARIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing this on November 9, the anniversary of <em>kristallnacht, <\/em>and there\u2019s no better way to remember what that means than reading my friend (and yours, if you support gun owners\u2019 civil rights) David Codrea, here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/jewish-gun-group-remembers-kristallnacht-on-76th-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/jewish-gun-group-remembers-kristallnacht-on-76th-anniversary<\/a>.\u00a0 In it he links to a very important essay by another friend, a man I\u2019m proud to have had as a guest lecturer at one of my classes, Rabbi Ron Mermelstein: <a href=\"http:\/\/jpfo.org\/filegen-a-m\/kristal.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/jpfo.org\/filegen-a-m\/kristal.htm<\/a>. First published in 1998 by Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership, it is as timely now as it was then.\u00a0 Perhaps more so, since in the interim we\u2019ve had more gun prohibitionists claiming, with revisionist history worthy of Holocaust deniers, that the Nazis didn\u2019t disarm the Jews and the Jews never could have fought to save themselves from genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Monday will mark the Marine Corps Birthday; the USMC was founded in 1775. This coming Tuesday will be Veterans Day.\u00a0 I don\u2019t need to remind anyone here how much sacrifice those days of memorialization represent, sacrifice rendered in the name of the freedoms we now enjoy and hope to keep and even expand upon.<\/p>\n<p>Over the centuries and much in the memory of living Americans, the butcher\u2019s bill has been high.\u00a0 May those good people not have been killed and maimed in vain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing this on November 9, the anniversary of kristallnacht, and there\u2019s no better way to remember what that means than reading my friend (and yours, if you support gun owners\u2019 civil rights) David Codrea, here: http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/jewish-gun-group-remembers-kristallnacht-on-76th-anniversary.\u00a0 In it he links to a very important essay by another friend, a man I\u2019m proud to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"category-politics","9":"category-preparedness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}