{"id":3131,"date":"2006-12-04T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/nine-grieving-families-how-many-more\/"},"modified":"2006-12-04T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T03:45:00","slug":"nine-grieving-families-how-many-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/nine-grieving-families-how-many-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Grieving Families: How Many More?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/meast\/12\/03\/iraq.main\/index.html?section=cnn_latest\">CNN story<\/a> linked to by this site today, nine U.S. troops were killed in Iraq over the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s stop and think for a minute\u00c2\u00a0what this means.\u00c2\u00a0It\u00c2\u00a0means that nine families were told today by the U.S. government that their father, husband, son, or brother died in Iraq. It means that nine families have nothing to celebrate this Christmas. It means that nine families are experiencing untold grief and anguish. What makes all of this even worse, of course, is that these dead U.S. soldiers died for a lie. Do the families of these soldiers realize this? I can&#8217;t imagine the disgust I would feel if one of my family members died for this administration&#8217;s Iraq policy.\u00c2\u00a0When oh when will Congress stop funding this senseless war?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a CNN story linked to by this site today, nine U.S. troops were killed in Iraq over the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s stop and think for a minute\u00c2\u00a0what this means.\u00c2\u00a0It\u00c2\u00a0means that nine families were told today by the U.S. government that their father, husband, son, or brother died in Iraq. It means that nine families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}