{"id":2508,"date":"2007-10-20T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2007\/10\/20\/paying-respect\/"},"modified":"2007-10-20T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T23:00:13","slug":"paying-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2007\/10\/20\/paying-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;ve come to my wit&#8217;s end about ideas about Iraq.  I still stand by my <a href=\"\/peidm\/archives\/000439.html\">position<\/a> that we shouldn&#8217;t have invaded Iraq, but now that we&#8217;re there we United States Citizens have a responsibility to the country and the people who live and lived there.<\/p>\n<p>I recognize that I have little power to change what happens in Iraq.  I can write on my blog, write my senator, or join a protest.  Of course there are options that require more commitment, such as joining a humanitarian relief agency that does work in Iraq or with Iraqi refugees, or joining the Army. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I do one thing that actually keeps me connected and aware of my responsibility as an owner of the United States Government.  I consistently read the <a href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.info?_id=8AYqO_Vm3BG58RFyTqoASA\">Names of the Dead<\/a>.  It is a small pittance really, but it is a tendril that keeps me connected.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised really on how often there is some way that personally connects me to the soldiers who have died in Iraq.  In today&#8217;s article 22 year old Vincent A. Madero of Port Hueneme, California was the sole confirmed death.  Those who knew me at Chiquita will recognize that I was the Logistics Coordinator for Chiquita&#8217;s trucking operations in Port Hueneme.  I&#8217;ve been there, I&#8217;ve probably driven down, or walked on the same streets as Specialist Madero. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Reading the Names of the Dead has become a requirement and a high priority when I see in my RSS reader that it has been updated.  <\/p>\n<p>It is the least I can do to pay my respects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;ve come to my wit&#8217;s end about ideas about Iraq. I still stand by my position that we shouldn&#8217;t have invaded Iraq, but now that we&#8217;re there we United States Citizens have a responsibility to the country and the people who live and lived there. I recognize that I have little power to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}