{"id":4499,"date":"2006-07-04T11:10:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T11:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:30:59","slug":"the_fourth_of_j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4499","title":{"rendered":"The fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"

My father spent WW II in New Guinea and the Philippines, while my uncle (at 18 years old) served on an aircraft carrier. As a bonus my Dad also got re-called for the Korean War, spending 18 months there. He didn’t see me until I was over a year old. <\/p>\n

The following was posted on Michelle Malkin’s website.<\/p>\n

From Zell Miller’s<\/a> RNC speech in 2004:<\/p>\n

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Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier. <\/p>\n

And, our soldiers don’t just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.<\/p>\n

For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.<\/p>\n

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. <\/p>\n

It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.<\/p>\n

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom he abuses to burn that flag. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My father spent WW II in New Guinea and the Philippines, while my uncle (at 18 years old) served on an aircraft carrier. As a bonus my Dad also got re-called for the Korean War, spending 18 months there. He didn’t see me until I was over a year old. The following was posted on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9664,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions\/9664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}