{"id":177,"date":"2008-06-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-03T07:50:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T11:50:30","slug":"d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"D-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does this mean to you?<br \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"details-header\">Today is the 64th anniversary of D-Day.&nbsp; June 6, 1944, when more than 160,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy to liberate France from Nazi occupation.&nbsp; They jumped from planes and floated in on landing craft.&nbsp; They touched the French soil and were slaughtered wholesale.<\/div>\n<div id=\"details-header\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div id=\"details-header\">PBS aired a one hour documentary titled &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aptonline.org\/catalog.nsf\/LengthLookup\/71479DEEFCF0B73E85257282004BE527\" target=\"_blank\"><span>D-Day: The Price of Freedom<\/span><\/a>&quot; that focused on 5 men who survived D-Day to tell their stories and retrun to France, to the beaches, where their buddies died.&nbsp; While in France the locals come out in droves to greet them and thank them.&nbsp; Apparently the French people haven&#39;t forgotten the solders from the US and Britain who fought and died to free them.&nbsp; The French remember, maybe better than Americans do.&nbsp; It&#39;s moving, touching.&nbsp; I want to hug them, grasp their hands and stare into their eyes and say, wholeheartedly, thank you!<\/div>\n<div id=\"details-header\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div id=\"details-header\">[see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/amex\/dday\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Experience D-Day<\/a>]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does this mean to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state","category-us"],"views":1535,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}