{"id":1381984,"date":"2018-12-11T17:40:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T00:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/letter-bushong-sending-teens-to-study-d-day-beaches\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T17:40:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T00:40:20","slug":"letter-bushong-sending-teens-to-study-d-day-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/letter-bushong-sending-teens-to-study-d-day-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Bushong sending teens to study D-Day beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Wall Street Journal editorial on Friday related to The Longest Day \u2014 D-Day, says: &#8220;American teens might study history if they saw Omaha Beach.&#8221; And &#8220;Perhaps American philanthropists could send young Americans to Normandy to see the D-Day beaches and American war cemeteries.&#8221;<br \/>\nWell guess what! Our own Paul Bushong from Carbondale, with the aid of Aspen Community Foundation, has been doing this for two years, and this summer he will send a third group of Valley teenagers, totaling more than 30, to see the D-Day beaches and report to local groups like Rotary and Kiwanis, as well as to fellow students, on their experience.<br \/>\nThanks to Paul Bushong for beating the Wall Street Journal to the punch.<br \/>\nAlex De La Garza<br \/>\nGlenwood Springs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-bushong-sending-teens-to-study-d-day-beaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-bushong-sending-teens-to-study-d-day-beaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Letter: Bushong sending teens to study D-Day beaches\">Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wall Street Journal editorial on Friday related to The Longest Day \u2014 D-Day, says: &#8220;American teens might study history if they saw Omaha Beach.&#8221; And &#8220;Perhaps American philanthropists could send young Americans to Normandy to see the D-Day beaches and American war cemeteries.&#8221;<br \/>\nWell guess what! Our own Paul Bushong from Carbondale, with the aid of Aspen Community Foundation, has been doing this for two years, and this summer he will send a third group of Valley teenagers, totaling more than 30, to see the D-Day beaches and report to local groups like Rotary and Kiwanis, as well as to fellow students, on their experience.<br \/>\nThanks to Paul Bushong for beating the Wall Street Journal to the punch.<br \/>\nAlex De La Garza<br \/>\nGlenwood Springs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-bushong-sending-teens-to-study-d-day-beaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1381984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 05:41:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}