{"id":1855,"date":"2015-06-28T08:59:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2015-06-28T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T16:24:32","slug":"the-south-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/the-south-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"The South Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">28 Jun 2015<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I find the recent flap over the Confederate battle flag as a direct attack on the South and it&#8217;s heritage. I served with many Southerners in Vietnam and the warrior ethos is in their DNA. Today 40% of those enlisting come from the Southern states. They are patriots, not the racists as being portrayed today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Furthermore I believe this attack is well coordinated and timed. Brent Bozell says it best:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2015\/06\/26\/confederate-flag-and-cultural-fascism.html?intcmp=latestnews\">The Confederate flag and cultural fascism<\/a> by Brent Bozell &#8211; 26 Jun 2015<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>&#8220;You cultural fascists have struck again.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>&#8220;You have shown you will say most anything, and do most anything to advance your radical agenda. But that&#8217;s not enough, is it? Your intent is to ban any opposition. Your goal is to ban even the expression of dissension&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Jun 2015: I find the recent flap over the Confederate battle flag as a direct attack on the South and it&#8217;s heritage. I served with many Southerners in Vietnam and the warrior ethos is in their DNA. Today 40% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/the-south-under-fire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter-op-ed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}