{"id":16537,"date":"2014-05-26T03:40:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T10:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16537"},"modified":"2014-05-26T03:40:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T10:40:55","slug":"remembering-on-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/remembering-on-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering on Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/civwrso.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of us weren&#8217;t there when the U.S. lost\u00a0405,399 soldiers in World War II. \u00a0My father served in that war and is still alive to talk about it, though he really prefers not to. He was just a kid out of high school with bright hopes for his future. As children, my siblings and I dug into his box of photographs and saw stark images of battlefield death. My father, the nicest guy you&#8217;ll ever meet,\u00a0\u00a0who never says a bad word about anyone, fought\u00a0for his country and his life. He survived, though he saw many die.<\/p>\n<p>Today on Memorial Day we honor those who died serving for our country. The majority died fighting in the Civil War,\u00a0\u00a0a battle on American soil that claimed the lives of\u00a0625,00o men, including approx.\u00a01,000 women who\u00a0disguised themselves as men and took up arms.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Day tributes in the\u00a0oldest national cemetery on the West Coast, San Francisco National Cemetery, will honor the lives of soldiers dating back more than 150 years. San Francisco National Cemetery is tied to the Presidio of San Francisco, a military fort first established by Spain in 1776. \u00a0Its designation in 1884 as a national cemetery marked an expansion of the national cemetery system beyond Civil War battlefields. San Francisco National Cemetery (nps.gov) on the grounds of the Presidio at 1 Lincoln Blvd. in San Francisco, \u00a0is open for visitation daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fort at the Presidio remained under Spanish control until Mexico\u2019s independence from the European nation in 1821. The Presidio came under U.S. control in 1846 during the Mexican-American War, and was expanded as a U.S. military facility during the Civil War period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us weren&#8217;t there when the U.S. lost\u00a0405,399 soldiers in World War II. \u00a0My father served in that war and is still alive to talk about it, though he really prefers not to. He was just a kid out of high school with bright hopes for his future. As children, my siblings and I [&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\/16537"}],"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=16537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}