{"id":26517,"date":"2018-11-10T22:41:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T03:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26517"},"modified":"2018-11-10T23:08:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T04:08:38","slug":"26517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26517","title":{"rendered":"Desecrating Consecrated Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1971\/44974025971_02b2e10dc6_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our President didn&#8217;t want to get his hair wet so he was the only head of state to skip out on visiting one of the American Cemeteries of fallen American troops in France.  <\/p>\n<p>I believe he skipped out on the field at Belleau Woods where a lot of Marines died. He left for France after berating three African american reporters and then threatened to withhold federal aid for Californians beset with the most hideous fires yet.<\/p>\n<p>This year I visited the small village where my Grandfather got shot up 100 years to the day he put his life on the line for his country. Afterwards, I visited an American Cemetery not far from Verdun where the battle of the Meuse Argonne was fought. 26,000 Americans died there; more than fell in any other battle in America&#8217;s history. The picture above is one I took while I was in France this September.<\/p>\n<p>If you are new to my blog I wrote about it <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26149\">in this post<\/a>. If you are interested the next two posts following that detail sights I saw on America\u2019s battlefields near Verdun.<\/p>\n<p>I will be putting up our Stars and Stripes tomorrow on the centenary of the Great War\u2019s end \u2013 Veteran\u2019s Day. I will honor my Grandfather\u2019s fellow soldiers. I hope it makes up for the repellent human that soils our White House daily.<\/p>\n<p>Pity the down trodden Central Americans who will be facing 5,000 well armed American soldiers in the next few weeks. There won&#8217;t be any Pancho Villa&#8217;s among them. Like the villagers in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=24737\"><strong>Magnificent Seven<\/strong><\/a> they are escaping such people. In today&#8217;s America they are not likely to find any Yul Brynners or Steve McQueens. I hope someone warns them not to throw rocks. Our poor troops.  President Trump really knows how to humiliate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our President didn&#8217;t want to get his hair wet so he was the only head of state to skip out on visiting one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26517"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26526,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26517\/revisions\/26526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}