{"id":12953,"date":"2014-05-26T09:37:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T16:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=12953"},"modified":"2014-05-26T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T16:37:04","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12954\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/137_2212-RAW-grave-busan-lyman-tomlinson-UN-Memorial-Cemetery.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12954\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/137_2212-RAW-grave-busan-lyman-tomlinson-UN-Memorial-Cemetery-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"grave busan lyman tomlinson UN Memorial Cemetery\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/137_2212-RAW-grave-busan-lyman-tomlinson-UN-Memorial-Cemetery-800x451.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/137_2212-RAW-grave-busan-lyman-tomlinson-UN-Memorial-Cemetery-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/137_2212-RAW-grave-busan-lyman-tomlinson-UN-Memorial-Cemetery.jpg 1912w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lyman Tomlinson grave in the UN Memorial Cemetery (Busan, South Korea)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went to the UN Memorial Cemetery for the Korean War in Busan last July. It&#8217;s a cemetery in Korea for Korean War participants from a dozen countries or so. Very few of the graves are for Americans as most of those were moved to the USA long ago. <\/p>\n<p>The experience was very moving. Several Korean people there asked me where I was from and when I told them the US, they were very thankful. When I told them my dad was in the Korean War they were even more appreciative. I explained that my father&#8217;s job during the war was more or less a desk job in Japan, but they said they didn&#8217;t care. The fact that he was involved in any way was all that mattered. One guy got down on the ground and started bowing and crying. He made me cry too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the UN Memorial Cemetery for the Korean War in Busan last July. It&#8217;s a cemetery in Korea for Korean War participants from a dozen countries or so. Very few of the graves are for Americans as most of those were moved to the USA long ago. The experience was very moving. Several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[436],"tags":[471,217,446,429,480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12955,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953\/revisions\/12955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}