{"id":544,"date":"2008-07-04T04:52:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T09:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2008-07-04T04:52:33","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T09:52:33","slug":"freedom-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/freedom-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"freedom poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the flag pass by one day, it fluttered in the breeze<br \/>\nA young Marine saluted it, and then he stood at ease<br \/>\nI looked at Him in uniform so young, so tall, so proud<br \/>\nwith hair cut square and eyes alert He&#8217;d stand out in any crowd<br \/>\nI thought how many men like him had fallen through the years.<br \/>\nHow many died on foreign Soil How many mothers&#8217; tears?<br \/>\nHow many pilots&#8217; planes shot down? How many died at sea<br \/>\nhow many foxholes were soldiers&#8217; Graves? No, freedom isn&#8217;t free<br \/>\nI heard the sound of Taps one night, when everything was still<br \/>\nI listened to the bugler Play and felt a sudden chill<br \/>\nI wondered just how many times That Taps had meant &#8220;Amen,&#8221;<br \/>\nWhen a flag had draped a Coffin. Of a brother or a friend<br \/>\nI thought of all the Children, of the mothers and the wives<br \/>\nof fathers, sons and Husbands With interrupted lives<br \/>\nI thought about a graveyard at the bottom of the sea<br \/>\nof unmarked graves in Arlington. No, freedom isn&#8217;t free<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kevinbryant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/vet.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kevinbryant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/vet.jpg?resize=379%2C304\" alt=\"\" title=\"vet\" width=\"379\" height=\"304\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-545\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the flag pass by one day, it fluttered in the breeze A young Marine saluted it, and then he stood at ease I looked at Him in uniform so young, so tall, so proud with hair cut square and eyes alert He&#8217;d stand out in any crowd I thought how many men like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-8M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}