{"id":1125,"date":"2011-05-05T18:12:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=598"},"modified":"2011-05-05T18:12:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:12:48","slug":"vietnam-ww-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam&#8230; WW II&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We traveled to Apalachicola, Florida, where we visited a striking replica of one of the Vietnam Memorial sculptures in D.C.  It was a depiction of three soldiers in the field and definitely conveys some of the intensity of war&#8230;  This week we also talked to Gladys Quattlebaum in Lanark Village, Florida. \u00a0 Her husband fought in Vietnam. \u00a0 He died later of complications from exposure to &#8220;agent orange.&#8221; \u00a0 (He also had PTSD.) \u00a0 For 12 years, Mrs. Quattlebaum regularly wrote to sitting U.S. presidents protesting what she saw as a lot of the folly of war. \u00a0 She never got a response. \u00a0 This day in Lanark Village, I felt like I was making up for the no responses a bit, as I listened. \u00a0<strong> Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Up the road on Rte. 98 along the coast, we visited a beach that was the<strong> D-Day Training Site<\/strong> during World War II. \u00a0 In 1943, members of the 4th Army Division trained in the surf and dunes here in preparation for the famous &#8220;Invasion of Normandy&#8221; that would take thousands of American soldiers&#8217; lives on June 6, 1944.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"more 370 by voteforjoe, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60605430@N03\/5719482719\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"301\" height=\"227\" alt=\"more 370\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2642\/5719482719_c04029a237.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We traveled to Apalachicola, Florida, where we visited a striking replica of one of the Vietnam Memorial sculptures in D.C. It was a depiction of three soldiers in the field and definitely conveys some of the intensity of war&#8230; This <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1125\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}