{"id":6325,"date":"2024-02-25T00:27:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T06:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2024-02-25T00:27:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T06:27:05","slug":"thank-you-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6325","title":{"rendered":"THANK YOU, MILITARY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I watched and listened to Trump speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference this week.<br>He gave extended tribute to the United States military, and gave hope in the most convincing words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I live close to Ft. Hood in Central Texas.<br>Army helicopters fly over every day&#8212;I stop to thank God and pray for them.<br>The Temple airport is about ten miles away, and the helicopters use it all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a dramatic, emotional moment 34 years ago, at the end of a memorable ten-day canoe trip, 110 miles on the Wilderness Waterway through Everglades National Park, with my eleven-year-old son and two friends.<br>After no human contact the whole time, within hours of the end of our trip, we expected to find a road with our vehicle parked to take us home.<br>We were paddling silently along a &#8216;river&#8217;, a wide waterway with no current, when  helicopters suddenly appeared overhead, seemingly out of nowhere.<br>I felt what it must have been like for our honorable armed forces to experience that in the jungle waterways of Vietnam.<br>And appreciation grew even more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THANK YOU, MILITARY ! ! !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched and listened to Trump speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference this week.He gave extended tribute to the United States military, and gave hope in the most convincing words. I live close to Ft. Hood in Central Texas.Army helicopters fly over every day&#8212;I stop to thank God and pray for them.The Temple airport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6326,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions\/6326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}