{"id":4186,"date":"2014-05-26T20:11:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T01:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2014-05-26T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T17:43:20","slug":"memorial-day-passaic-nj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=4186","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day, Passaic NJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This photo shoot turned out to become an accidental tribute to Memorial Day, to remembering those who served and died in the wars that our nation has been involved in.  There is a little park with a monument on a mini-hilltop in Passaic NJ that I have passed innumerable times since I was a baby, but never stopped to appreciate.  So I decided to use the holiday to make a photo run to this little park.  Well, it turned out that the monument is a veterans monument, and a parade and celebration event were underway.  So I mingled around a bit and am sharing a few of the shots I took.  <\/p>\n<p>The monument appears to be focused on World War 2, but the designers allowed room around the top band for the inscription of future wars.  Ironically, it came to good use; Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf (they haven&#8217;t yet updated it for Afghanistan).  Let&#8217;s pray that it won&#8217;t need to be updated after that.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/passaicmemday1.jpg\"><br \/>MORE PHOTOS:  &nbsp; <!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/passaicmemday2.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div style = \"text-align:center\">\n<div style=\"display:inline-block;margin-right: 8px\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/passaicmemday3b.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display:inline-block;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/passaicmemday4.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>P.S., I had two uncles who were among the 3,500 men from Passaic who served in WW2; luckily neither of them wound up amidst the 75 who made the Supreme Sacrifice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo shoot turned out to become an accidental tribute to Memorial Day, to remembering those who served and died in the wars that our nation has been involved in. There is a little park with a monument on a mini-hilltop in Passaic NJ that I have passed innumerable times since I was a baby, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4195,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}