{"id":5076,"date":"2023-11-10T13:35:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T13:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/independentamericans.us\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2023-11-10T13:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T13:58:33","slug":"cnn-opinion-combine-election-day-with-veterans-day-and-give-democracy-a-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/cnn-opinion-combine-election-day-with-veterans-day-and-give-democracy-a-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Opinion: Combine Election Day with Veterans Day and give democracy a boost"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Veterans Day has been recognized as a federal holiday each November 11 since 1938, but it means little for most Americans beyond a day off from work.<\/p>\n

Attendance at Veterans Day events is regrettably low\u2014and declining rapidly. And so is the veterans\u2019 population in America.<\/p>\n

World War II\u2019s \u201cGreatest Generation\u201d is almost entirely gone. And the Korean and Vietnam War generations are aging. Over the next 20 years, the overall population of veterans like me will drop dramatically from about 19 million people to roughly 13 million.<\/p>\n

If, as they often say in politics, demographics is destiny, the social, economic and political power of veterans is about to fall off a cliff.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/11\/10\/opinions\/opinion-veterans-day-election-day-combine-rieckhoff\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Veterans Day has been recognized as a federal holiday each November 11 since 1938, but it means little for most Americans beyond a day off from work. Attendance at Veterans Day events is regrettably low\u2014and declining rapidly. And so is the veterans\u2019 population in America. World War II\u2019s \u201cGreatest Generation\u201d is almost entirely gone. And… Continue reading CNN Opinion: Combine Election Day with Veterans Day and give democracy a boost<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-media","category-in-the-press","category-op-ed","entry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/VETSELECTION.jpg",800,509,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/VETSELECTION.jpg",800,509,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/VETSELECTION.jpg",800,509,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/VETSELECTION-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/VETSELECTION-300x191.jpg",300,191,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/VETSELECTION.jpg",750,477,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/VETSELECTION.jpg",800,509,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/VETSELECTION.jpg",800,509,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/VETSELECTION.jpg",800,509,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/author\/admin\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"In the media<\/a> In the Press<\/a> OP-ED<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Veterans Day has been recognized as a federal holiday each November 11 since 1938, but it means little for most Americans beyond a day off from work. Attendance at Veterans Day events is regrettably low\u2014and declining rapidly. And so is the veterans\u2019 population in America. World War II\u2019s \u201cGreatest Generation\u201d is almost entirely gone. And……","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5081,"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions\/5081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}