{"id":3181,"date":"2026-05-25T16:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:48:03","slug":"memorial-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3181","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/veterans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/veterans-1024x476.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/veterans-1024x476.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/veterans-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/veterans-768x357.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/veterans-1536x714.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/veterans.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>local Veterans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent the morning covering some of the local Memorial Day festivities for the town Facebook page.  Over years, I have interviewed a good number of these Veterans, as I have interviewed Veterans from across the country for our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/military-c88k\">position paper on the military<\/a>.  Whether the fields of Germany, or the jungles of Vietnam, or the mountains of Afghanistan, U.S. Service people are not only willing to risk their lives for their country, but they are willing to risk the long-term effects of war (PTSD, cancer from agent orange, amputations&#8230;)  We should never go to war on a cavalier whim, but only after much discussed, and prayerful discernment &#8212; weighing this all in line with &#8220;Just War&#8221; principles.  At least that&#8217;s what our administration would do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>local Veterans I spent the morning covering some of the local Memorial Day festivities for the town Facebook page. Over years, I have interviewed a good number of these Veterans, as I have interviewed Veterans from across the country for <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3181\"><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-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","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=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}