{"id":9347,"date":"2021-07-13T19:39:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=9347"},"modified":"2021-07-13T19:39:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:39:39","slug":"paris-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=9347","title":{"rendered":"Paris Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Von Guttman recently shared a short video clip of the French Foreign Legion Pioneers marching through the Jardin du Lexembourg. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/574670108\" width=\"640\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve pondered these scenes while visiting memorials, particulary as the percentage of American veterans continues to decline, now below 10% [1].<\/p>\n<p>The awareness and experience gap must be enormous across the US population, which is rather challenging given the footprint our armed forces have across the globe [2].<\/p>\n<p>1. The changing face of America\u2019s veteran population by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/04\/05\/the-changing-face-of-americas-veteran-population\/\">Katherine Schaeffer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. The infographic reveals for the first time that the U.S. is now operating in 40 percent of the world\u2019s nations.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/map-shows-places-world-where-us-military-operates-180970997\/\"> Stephanie Savell and 5W Infographics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Von Guttman recently shared a short video clip of the French Foreign Legion Pioneers marching through the Jardin du Lexembourg. I&#8217;ve pondered these scenes while visiting memorials, particulary as the percentage of American veterans continues to decline, now below 10% [1]. The awareness and experience gap must be enormous across the US population, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9348,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions\/9348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}