{"id":47386,"date":"2018-11-11T05:26:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T10:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=47386"},"modified":"2018-11-11T05:26:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T10:26:22","slug":"honoring-our-veterans-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/honoring-our-veterans-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring our Veterans today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/veterans-day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-47388\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/veterans-day-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>My dad returned from WWII a little shell shocked. Many did. He managed his physical pain with 60-80 Tylenol-4 a day, the emotional pain with alcohol. I can&#8217;t imagine the pain he was in. We didn&#8217;t make it easy for him. We certainly didn&#8217;t give him the respect he deserved. He loved long walks but back and hip problems kept him from them. He shot himself at age 62. In a coma in his final weeks. I&#8217;d call and the night nurse would tell me, &#8220;he&#8217;s marching.&#8221; I hope he was enjoying his long walks again. Today, I&#8217;m honoring all who served. They gave more than we&#8217;ll ever know.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/honoring-our-veterans-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Honoring our Veterans today&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/honoring-our-veterans-today\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/honoring-our-veterans-today\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/honoring-our-veterans-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Honoring%20our%20Veterans%20today&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/honoring-our-veterans-today\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad returned from WWII a little shell shocked. Many did. He managed his physical pain with 60-80 Tylenol-4 a day, the emotional pain with alcohol. I can&#8217;t imagine the pain he was in. We didn&#8217;t make it easy for him. We certainly didn&#8217;t give him the respect he deserved. He loved long walks but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47389,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47386\/revisions\/47389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}