{"id":9474,"date":"2015-11-11T20:38:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T02:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9474"},"modified":"2015-11-11T20:38:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T02:38:44","slug":"some-closing-prose-from-a-vet-on-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/11\/some-closing-prose-from-a-vet-on-veterans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Closing Prose from a Vet on Veterans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>I spent the day in quiet reflection. On Veterans and Memorial Day I always make it a point to watch a movie or two that\u00a0memorializes my heroes&#8230;.today I watched one about Winston Churchill called &#8220;Into the Storm&#8221; I highly recommend it for you fellow WW2 buffs..anyways, It got me in a &#8220;poetic&#8221; mood.-SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9475\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/fighting-men.png\" alt=\"fighting men\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Life is fleeting my friends, a quick whisper, a short story, a flash of bright light and it is gone<\/p>\n<p>believe me when I say I have seen it leave in a hurry too many times, taking with it friends and brothers&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>People that mattered, People I loved, are getting fewer and fewer in number now<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s called getting older (and wiser) the old warriors tell me<\/p>\n<p>the memories you keep you hold on too tight, even if some of them hurt, even if some of them bite<\/p>\n<p>I find purpose and I find life in a Child&#8217;s smile now&#8230;the brightness in their eyes, the smoothness in their soul<\/p>\n<p>Happiness, like Life, is Fleeting too, if you don&#8217;t pursue it everyday&#8230;So Pursue it! For one day we die&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But as the poet so eloquently said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;To Every Man Upon this Earth,<\/p>\n<p>Death cometh soon or late,<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>and how can man die better than facing fearful odds&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let us all pray that we all can die facing fearful odds one day<\/p>\n<p>For I fear the future of Democracy and Freedom may demand it, one way or another&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous My Friends&#8230;.And Thanks for Reading the Blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the day in quiet reflection. On Veterans and Memorial Day I always make it a point to watch a movie or two that\u00a0memorializes my heroes&#8230;.today I watched one about Winston Churchill called &#8220;Into the Storm&#8221; I highly recommend it for you fellow WW2 buffs..anyways, It got me in a &#8220;poetic&#8221; mood.-SF &nbsp; Life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1247],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}