{"id":533,"date":"2009-11-22T10:51:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T14:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=533"},"modified":"2009-11-22T10:51:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T14:51:52","slug":"when-we-give-thanks-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/when-we-give-thanks-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN WE GIVE THANKS THIS WEEK\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t think it\u2019s coincidence that Veteran\u2019s Day and Thanksgiving take place in the same month.<\/p>\n

I recently read \u201cHell\u2019s Guest\u201d by Col. Glenn D. Frazier. Frazier had been a conflicted mid-teen kid in the Deep South when he lied about his age and enlisted in the United States Army shortly before WWII. He was stationed in the Philippines when the \u201cballoon went up.\u201d Abandoned, he and his buddies fought fiercely \u2013 Frazier having had to kill in hand to hand combat with a knife \u2013 before the American forces were overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

Young Frazier was one of the survivors of the infamous \u201cBataan Death March,\u201d and endured nightmarish captivity as a POW for the entire war. Afterward, he suffered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder before psychologists were using the term.\u00a0 He fought through it with the same courage and character that had seen him through so many near-death ordeals, to become a role-model member of The Greatest Generation who even today helps others to cope with life crises.<\/p>\n

You can read about it in \u201cHell\u2019s Guest,\u201d and can find ordering information for this inspirational book at www.hellsguest.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I got my copy when my old friend Steve Sager had the privilege of meeting Col. Frazier at a book signing, and was kind enough to snag me one.\u00a0 Steve, recently returned from Iraq and Afghanistan, found Col. Frazier\u2019s insights most memorable \u2013 and most timely — in talking with him. After reading the book, I envy Steve the opportunity to meet this exemplar of American character.<\/p>\n

Remember Col. Frazier and the many like him of all generations, who made it possible for us in this coming week to sit down at the annual feast where we Give Thanks.\u00a0 And don\u2019t neglect the current generation, who won\u2019t be in comfortable American dining rooms to share the holiday because they\u2019re in the desert and the mountains, in deadly danger, representing their country.<\/p>\n

An inspiring book.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"11_22_01\"<\/p>\n

Col. Frazier, right, with Steve Sager.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"11_22Col.-Frazier\"<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t think it\u2019s coincidence that Veteran\u2019s Day and Thanksgiving take place in the same month. I recently read \u201cHell\u2019s Guest\u201d by Col. Glenn D. Frazier. Frazier had been a conflicted mid-teen kid in the Deep South when he lied about his age and enlisted in the United States Army shortly before WWII. He was […]<\/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-533","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\/533","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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/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=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}