{"id":14335,"date":"2013-11-11T03:46:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T11:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14335"},"modified":"2013-11-11T03:46:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T11:46:43","slug":"veterans-dont-always-talk-about-the-rough-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/veterans-dont-always-talk-about-the-rough-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Don&#8217;t Always Talk About the Rough Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/ww2.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are more than 23 million veterans in U.S. and men make up the vast majority. Around nine out of ten vets are men&#8211;only one in ten is a woman. The largest living cohort of male Veterans served during the Vietnam Era (August 1964 to April 1975) while the largest living cohort of female Veterans served during Gulf War II (September 2001 or later) and peacetime periods.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bstck.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"239\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0My dad,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/howard-hughes.html\">Bob Stock<\/a>, \u00a0is a veteran of WWII and doesn&#8217;t talk much about the things he experienced during his service. \u00a0We always imagined the worst and were thankful that he survived the horrific experience that apparently\u00a0was\u00a0painful to discuss. It turns out that my dad is not alone. Since he didn&#8217;t talk much about the war, however, we spent years having to repeat our sentences and questions, talking louder than normal so he could hear us, unaware that his hearing became impaired as a result of his service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a breakdown of surviving veterans in the U.S.<\/strong><br \/>\nWORLD WAR I (1917-18)<br \/>\nServed: 4,734,991<br \/>\nLiving veterans: 0<\/p>\n<p>WORLD WAR II (1941-45)<br \/>\nServed 16 million (approx.)<br \/>\nLiving Veterans 1,711,000<\/p>\n<p>KOREAN WAR (1950-53)<br \/>\nServed 5,720,000<br \/>\nLiving veterans 2,275,000<\/p>\n<p>VIETNAM WAR (1964-1975)<br \/>\nServed 8,744,000<br \/>\nLiving vets 7,391,000<\/p>\n<p>GULF WAR (1990-91)<br \/>\nServed 2,322,000<br \/>\nLiving vets 2,244,583<\/p>\n<p>GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR (2001-Present)<br \/>\n2,226,056 Total Service Members Deployed as of 2011<br \/>\nLiving 2,117,082<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more than 23 million veterans in U.S. and men make up the vast majority. Around nine out of ten vets are men&#8211;only one in ten is a woman. The largest living cohort of male Veterans served during the Vietnam Era (August 1964 to April 1975) while the largest living cohort of female Veterans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}