{"id":926,"date":"2010-11-11T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.periniassociates.com\/?p=926"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:11:34","slug":"salute-a-military-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/11\/salute-a-military-veteran\/","title":{"rendered":"Salute a Military Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<html><body><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_927\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/iStock_veteransstampXSmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-927\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-927\" title=\"iStock_veteransstampXSmall\" src=\"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/iStock_veteransstampXSmall-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"American flag waves with tribute text honoring veterans.\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/iStock_veteransstampXSmall-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/iStock_veteransstampXSmall.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Take time to honor a veteran<\/p><\/div>\n<p>by Michael B. Perini, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iabc.com\">ABC<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\"> perini &amp; associates<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.va.gov\/opa\/vetsday\/\">Veterans Day<\/a> &acirc;&euro;&ldquo; a day to honor the veterans of all branches of our Armed Forces. In 1999, a postage stamp was issued to honor those who served. &Acirc;&nbsp;Please take a moment and reflect on what the sacrifices by these individuals has meant to your family, the nation and our way of life. &Acirc;&nbsp;Veterans have taught us much and we should learn from history and guard against a degradation of &Acirc;&nbsp;a weakened American defense &#8211;no small public relations challenge.<\/p>\n<p>This Veterans Day, please take a moment to thank a veteran for their significant sacrifice. Not sure you know any veterans? They are everywhere. Every age. &Acirc;&nbsp;Every race. &Acirc;&nbsp;Every social status. &Acirc;&nbsp;You will find them at the store and in the office. &Acirc;&nbsp;At the gym and in the restaurant. &Acirc;&nbsp;Hiking. Biking. At &Acirc;&nbsp;the post office. &Acirc;&nbsp;Shake their hand. &Acirc;&nbsp;Let them know you appreciate them.<\/p>\n<p>So today, honor and recognize all of our American service members, past and present, and salute them for service to our country, both in uniform and out. &Acirc;&nbsp;Send me any names of those you know and I will post them here.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Michael B. Perini, ABC perini &amp; associates Veterans Day &acirc;&euro;&ldquo; a day to honor the veterans of all branches of our Armed Forces. In 1999, a postage stamp was issued to honor those who served. &Acirc;&nbsp;Please take a moment and reflect on what the sacrifices by these individuals has meant to your family, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,28],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-community-relations","tag-public-relations-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}