{"id":110,"date":"2008-07-04T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/what-i-experienced-on-july-4th-2008.html"},"modified":"2008-07-04T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T04:00:00","slug":"what-i-experienced-on-july-4th-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/what-i-experienced-on-july-4th-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"What I experienced on July 4th, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/lcam-796600.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/lcam-796591.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On July 4th, 2008, I had the privilege of visiting the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in Hamm, Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<p>This cemetery is run by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abmc.gov\/cemeteries\/cemeteries\/lx.php\"><strong>American Battle Monuments Commission<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is an awe inspiring place that pays tribute to the fighting forces of the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/unknown-721171.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/unknown-720912.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> I spent several hours there looking at some of the 5,076 gravesites, and noticed several of the 371 graves for those that no one knew their name.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, now days, it can easily be determined from DNA who a person is after the fact, unlike back then.<\/p>\n<p>This cemetery is a tribute to the Americans that gave their lives when others called for help.<\/p>\n<p>There is little that I can say that can describe the feelings I felt being in the presense of all of these heroes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/meandpatton-706694.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/meandpatton-706684.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>One hero laid to rest here, is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_S._Patton\"><strong>General George S. Patton Jr<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was very humbling seeing the final resting place for such a leader.<\/p>\n<p>It was an honor and a privilege to spend my 4th of July visiting some of America&#8217;s heroes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 4th, 2008, I had the privilege of visiting the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in Hamm, Luxembourg. This cemetery is run by the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}