{"id":8684,"date":"2013-11-04T11:22:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=8684"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T16:22:16","slug":"letter-question-about-military-service-unanswered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=8684","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Question about military service unanswered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Letters11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8688\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Letters11\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Letters11.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>This letter is to Bill Dunn of Downingtown in response to his letter entitled &#8220;A Different Take on Freedom&#8221; I am sorry to say that your letter does not answer the question: Why should African-American, Latino-Americans, middle class and poor Americans serve in the U.S. Armed Services?<\/p>\n<p>I say this because of the serious harm the Tea Party, conservatives, Congressional Republicans, and some state government legislatures are inflict on the American people.<\/p>\n<p>You also mention that my family visit Arlington Cemetery. You say that people in Arlington fought for freedom, justice and equality for all and not just for a certain group and their ideology. In fact, all wars that Americans died in were for freedom, justice, and equality formed around democracy &#8211; which we still don&#8217;t have. It appears that the mindset of some Republicans, the Tea Party and conservatives want to take us back 300 years to a time of servitude and oppression.<\/p>\n<p>I am a veteran of the U.S. Army as was my father, my son and four uncles. My great-grandfather fought in the Civil War. My mother worked in an ammunition depot in the state of Maryland, like so many other people.<\/p>\n<p>This United States does not belong to a certain group of people: It belongs to all of us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Elwood Dixon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Coatesville<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor, This letter is to Bill Dunn of Downingtown in response to his letter entitled &#8220;A Different Take on Freedom&#8221; I am sorry to say that your letter does not answer the question: Why should African-American, Latino-Americans, middle class and poor Americans serve in the U.S. Armed Services? I say this because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[3055,961,3054],"class_list":["post-8684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-arlington-cemetery","tag-civil-war","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}