{"id":2449012,"date":"2019-09-22T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/living-to-tell-about-war\/"},"modified":"2019-09-23T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T14:26:39","slug":"living-to-tell-about-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/living-to-tell-about-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Living to tell about war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Thoughts on my 50th year of being med evacuated for the last time from \u201cNam,\u201d 20 July \u201869 after four combat tours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">War, like life, is made up of moments, some singular and some strung together into seemingly endless hours and days. Those who experienced war know all too well those moments \u2014 moments of sorrow, camaraderie, exhilaration, violence, compassion, sacrifice and brutality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We know them because they come unexpectedly, punctuating the stifling monotony and boredom of war. Vietnam was no exception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">There is no political message here and no moral judgement; it was what it was! Peace!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Michael Galvis<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Woody Creek<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/living-to-tell-about-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts on my 50th year of being med evacuated for the last time from \u201cNam,\u201d 20 July \u201869 after four combat tours. War, like life, is made up of moments, some singular and some strung together into seemingly endless hours and days. Those who experienced war know all too well those moments \u2014 moments of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2449012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 04:47:31","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449030,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449012\/revisions\/2449030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}