{"id":37434,"date":"2012-05-28T20:29:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T03:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/?p=37434"},"modified":"2012-05-28T20:29:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T03:29:53","slug":"without-the-sacrifice-of-our-veterans-we-wouldnt-be-free-to-bbq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/without-the-sacrifice-of-our-veterans-we-wouldnt-be-free-to-bbq\/","title":{"rendered":"Without The Sacrifice Of Our Veterans We Wouldn&#8217;t Be Free To BBQ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Memorial-Day.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37445\" title=\"Memorial Day -- Steven Woo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Memorial-Day-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Memorial-Day-450x337.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Memorial-Day-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Memorial-Day.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Our United States Veterans allow the rest of us to BBQ today &#8212; Never take that for granted.\u00a0 Our sometimes Washington, DC Correspondent (dubbed by me), Steven Woo sent a report of a <a title=\"Memorial Day Events\" href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/Events\/Vietnam-War-Marked-on-Memorial-Day\/10737430977\/\" target=\"_blank\">well spent day<\/a>.\u00a0 An excerpt is posted below with related photographs.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Attached are pix from the Wall. \u00a0The National Park Service routinely collects the artifacts but lets them accumulate on special occasions such as Memorial Day. \u00a0IMHO, the written words are the most-moving of the objects. \u00a0President Obama spoke at the Wall this afternoon; all the artifacts were cleared in advance of his visit.\u00a0 Also included are pix of a Crab Feast at a friend&#8217;s house. \u00a0We spent the Sunday afternoon and evening hanging out, and didn&#8217;t make it to the National Memorial Day Concert &#8212; good thing because severe weather canceled the show half-way through.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Crab.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37446\" title=\"Crab -- By Steven Woo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Crab-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Crab-450x337.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Crab-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Crab.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Happy Memorial Day to all and God Bless America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our United States Veterans allow the rest of us to BBQ today &#8212; Never take that for granted.\u00a0 Our sometimes Washington, DC Correspondent (dubbed by me), Steven Woo sent a report of a well spent day.\u00a0 An excerpt is posted below with related photographs.\u00a0 Thank you. Attached are pix from the Wall. \u00a0The National Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[176,1,3538,1485],"tags":[3200,3850,3202,463],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Without The Sacrifice Of Our Veterans We Wouldn&#039;t Be Free To BBQ. - Nibbles of Tidbits, a Food Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/without-the-sacrifice-of-our-veterans-we-wouldnt-be-free-to-bbq\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"FoodBlog\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/without-the-sacrifice-of-our-veterans-we-wouldnt-be-free-to-bbq\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/without-the-sacrifice-of-our-veterans-we-wouldnt-be-free-to-bbq\/\",\"name\":\"Without The Sacrifice Of Our Veterans We Wouldn't Be Free To BBQ. - Nibbles of Tidbits, a Food Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-29T03:29:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-05-29T03:29:53+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/#\/schema\/person\/d13703add5ff9ca85c0ddc52a749afd2\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/without-the-sacrifice-of-our-veterans-we-wouldnt-be-free-to-bbq\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/without-the-sacrifice-of-our-veterans-we-wouldnt-be-free-to-bbq\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/without-the-sacrifice-of-our-veterans-we-wouldnt-be-free-to-bbq\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Without The Sacrifice Of Our Veterans We Wouldn&#8217;t Be Free To BBQ.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/\",\"name\":\"Nibbles of Tidbits, a Food Blog\",\"description\":\"The GOOD, the BAD &amp; 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