{"id":3741,"date":"2016-06-06T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2016-06-06T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:46:07","slug":"reflections-on-d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/reflections-on-d-day\/","title":{"rendered":"REFLECTIONS ON D-DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

D-Day took place a bit over four years before I was born. My generation grew up revering those who fought there\u2026the Greatest Generation, our parents\u2019 generation.<\/p>\n

\"D_Day\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Today, we are witnessing the passing of the last of that generation. They taught us the importance of fighting evil and the futility of denying its existence.\u00a0 They taught us the importance of being ready to fight before the need to do so manifests itself. Today, I was reading \u201cHell In The Pacific,\u201d Jim McEnery\u2019s 2012 memoir with Bill Sloan of the Pacific campaign, and \u201cInto the Valley\u201d by John Hersey, written in 1943 when he was TIME-LIFE\u2019s war correspondent in that theater. The Hersey book ended with a plea for readers to buy war bonds and help win this thing.\u00a0 Both men recounted that the Marines landed on Guadalcanal with World War I vintage 1903 Springfield bolt action rifles.\u00a0 Not until he was en route to the next island was McEnery issued the semiautomatic M-1 Garand, which General George S. Patton would later call \u201cthe greatest battle implement ever devised,\u201d even though the M-1 had come out in 1936.<\/p>\n

About the only homage I can pay today is carrying a Parkerized 1911-A1 .45, reading about the great American heroes\u2026and remembering both their sacrifices, and the lessons they have bequeathed our nation, and us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D-Day took place a bit over four years before I was born. My generation grew up revering those who fought there\u2026the Greatest Generation, our parents\u2019 generation. Today, we are witnessing the passing of the last of that generation. They taught us the importance of fighting evil and the futility of denying its existence.\u00a0 They taught […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","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=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/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=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}