{"id":106,"date":"2004-10-30T22:20:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-31T02:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=106"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"one-soldiers-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"One soldier&#8217;s letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20041028\/REPOSITORY\/410280355&#038;SearchID=73188412774667\">From the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><b>A Matter of Survival <br \/>\n    By George Sprague <br \/>\n    Concord Monitor | Letter<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>    Thursday 28 October 2004 <\/p>\n<p>    <i>When I was home in New Hampshire on leave last month, a lot of people approached me to tell what a good job we&#8217;re doing here in Iraq. <\/p>\n<p>    I appreciate the support, but I don&#8217;t need the media or those people to tell me what I see every day. We are not getting the job done. <\/p>\n<p>    People ask me, &#8220;How&#8217;s it going over there?&#8221; Cities have been overrun and are in a state of lawlessness. My job brings me into the streets. I see these things as they happen. They aren&#8217;t just headlines for me. All we are doing here is treading water, and at this rate we can&#8217;t keep afloat much longer. I&#8217;m just a simple man, but I can see that everything this administration has done with Iraq has been dead wrong. <\/p>\n<p>    We appreciate your support, but we can&#8217;t see those yellow ribbons from here. I ask that you let your vote show your support. I don&#8217;t know what you go to bed thinking, but I go to bed wondering not how many more years of this administration I can handle but how many more days I might survive. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>    George Sprague <br \/>\n    Balad, Iraq <\/p>\n<p>    The writer, who lives in Hillsboro, is a member of a National Guard unit serving at Camp Anaconda, a large logistical support area about 45 miles north of Baghdad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire: A Matter of Survival By George Sprague Concord Monitor | Letter Thursday 28 October 2004 When I was home in New Hampshire on leave last month, a lot of people approached me to tell what a good job we&#8217;re doing here in Iraq. I appreciate the support, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}