{"id":1840,"date":"2005-11-12T01:12:41","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T06:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/vanishing_vets\/"},"modified":"2005-11-12T01:12:41","modified_gmt":"2005-11-12T06:12:41","slug":"vanishing_vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/11\/vanishing_vets\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanishing Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately two million Americans served in World War I.  These are the <i>original<\/i> Veteran&#8217;s Day vets.  Although no one knows the exact number, the VA estimates that <a title=\"Time overtaking World War I vets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/11\/11\/vanishing.vets.ap\/index.html\">only between 30 and 50 of them are still alive<\/a>.<br \/>\nMore interesting information from the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Estimated number of war-era veterans, including those outside of war zones, in civilian life as of September 30, 2005:<br \/>\nWorld War I: fewer than 50.<br \/>\nWorld War II: 3.526 million.<br \/>\nKorean War: 3.257 million.<br \/>\nVietnam War: 8.055 million.<br \/>\nDesert Shield\/Storm (theater only): 615,000.<br \/>\nIraq\/Afghanistan (theater only): 433,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other wars and the ages of their last veterans the year they died: the War of 1812, 105, 1905; the Indian Wars, 101, 1973; the Mexican War, 98, 1929; the Civil War, 112, 1958; and the Spanish-American War, 106, 1992.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These old vets have sure witnessed a lot of changes during their lifetimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/11\/vanishing_vets\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Vanishing Vets\"><p>Approximately two million Americans served in World War I. These are the original Veteran&#8217;s Day vets. Although no one knows the exact number, the VA estimates that only between 30 and 50 of them are still alive. More interesting information from the link: Estimated number of war-era veterans, including those outside of war zones, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}