{"id":338022,"date":"2017-12-05T14:38:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/honor-the-fallen-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T14:38:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:38:05","slug":"honor-the-fallen-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/honor-the-fallen-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor the Fallen? – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWhen men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don\u2019t care if they are shot themselves.\u201d ~ Herbert Spencer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On a recent flight to Boston with a layover in Baltimore, I witnessed, firsthand, and in living color, American military idolatry in action like I have never seen before.<\/p>\n

I was just beginning to wonder why boarding was being delayed for my flight to Boston when a Southwest agent announced over the PA system the reason why. Turns out that the body of a dead U.S. serviceman was being loaded on my plane in Baltimore for the trip to Boston.<\/p>\n

Some passengers began looking out the airport windows to get a glimpse of what was taking place. I kept reading LewRockwell.com on my phone.<\/p>\n

The agent requested that everyone stand and observe a moment of silence while the body of a \u201cfallen hero\u201d was loaded on to the plane. I kept reading LewRockwell.com on my phone.<\/p>\n

The agent said is was a \u201csolemn honor and privilege\u201d to transport the remains of a \u201cproud patriot.\u201d I kept reading LewRockwell.com on my phone.<\/p>\n

Time to buy old US gold coins<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Most of the passengers stood in silence and looked out the windows. I kept reading LewRockwell.com on my phone.<\/p>\n

I noticed that some of the passengers looked like they were about to cry. I kept reading LewRockwell.com on my phone.<\/p>\n


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The agent explained that when we arrived in Boston no one would be allowed off the plane until the serviceman\u2019s remains were removed from the plane with full military honors. I kept reading LewRockwell.com on my phone.<\/p>\n

The agent asked the passengers to maintain a spirit of reverence during the flight. I kept reading…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhen men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don\u2019t care if they are shot themselves.\u201d ~ Herbert Spencer On a recent flight to Boston with a layover in Baltimore, I witnessed, firsthand, and in living color, American military idolatry in action like I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}