{"id":10909,"date":"2015-05-25T15:14:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T21:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=10909"},"modified":"2015-05-25T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T21:20:36","slug":"memorial-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/memorial-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yellowstone in the rain by Paige<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I was writing my grandmother’s history a few years ago, I learned\u00a0about two of her family members who\u00a0were killed in WWII. Each was an only son of immigrants from Sweden. I want to remember them today. It is sad to me that they have no descendants to think of them on Memorial Day.<\/p>\n

Pete Johnson’s son, Noble Johnson was killed on March 17, 1945 under the\u00a0Remagen Bridge in Germany. He was a welder and working underwater to repair a part of the bridge when he was killed. He left behind his parents and a sister named Helen.<\/p>\n

The other young man\u00a0was Cerie’s cousin Harvey Nelson, who came home looking just fine after being wounded in the War. He died suddenly on May 7, 1949 from a piece of shrapnel that dislodged in his body. He was the only child\u00a0of Judy, the widow of Waldemar Nelson.<\/p>\n

It’s sobering to think of their sacrifice and their families’ grief. I can’t visit their graves, but I can write about them and honor their gift.<\/p>\n

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When I was writing my grandmother’s history a few years ago, I learned\u00a0about two of her family members who\u00a0were killed in WWII. Each was an only son of immigrants from Sweden. I want to remember them today. It is sad to me that they have no descendants to think of them on Memorial Day. Pete … Continue reading Memorial Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-extended-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10912,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10909\/revisions\/10912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}