{"id":152,"date":"2004-04-06T22:45:43","date_gmt":"2004-04-06T22:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2004-04-06T22:45:43","modified_gmt":"2004-04-06T22:45:43","slug":"marines-die-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Marines die in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a former member of the Marine Corps, stories like the <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=578&amp;e=1&amp;u=\/nm\/20040406\/ts_nm\/iraq_dc\">death of up to 12 Marines<\/a> in Iraq are close to my heart. While I mourn their deaths, I&#8217;m grateful for their sacrifice. Their sacrifice shows that they are making and have made America safer.<\/p>\n<p>How? Our enemies are busy engaging our forces overseas. Notice terrorist bullets aren&#8217;t flying here. Iran is backing the thug in Iraq. That is where their resources are going.<\/p>\n<p>Al Qaeda is trying to infiltrate the Iraqi population. The fact that they are fighting our troops in Iraq means I can sleep safe here at home. Our Marines and Soldiers are in harm&#8217;s way there to keep us safe here&#8230;and it&#8217;s working.<\/p>\n<p>God bless the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a former member of the Marine Corps, stories like the death of up to 12 Marines in Iraq are close to my heart. While I mourn their deaths, I&#8217;m grateful for their sacrifice. Their sacrifice shows that they are making and have made America safer. How? Our enemies are busy engaging our forces overseas. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marines die in Iraq&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}