{"id":40831,"date":"2014-03-24T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=40831"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:35:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:35:11","slug":"what-is-left-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/03\/what-is-left-of-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Left of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Based on <\/i>Los Angeles Times<i> story \u201cU.S. Death Toll in Iraq Hits 2000\u201d Oct 26, 2005.<br \/>\n<\/i><b><br \/>\n<\/b>After the IED blew<br \/>\non the bridge over the Tigris River<br \/>\nthe medics scraped the body parts<br \/>\nthat had once been Jeffrey R. Wallace<br \/>\nout of his HUMVEE<br \/>\nand put them in a small box.<br \/>\nLater his medals were pinned<br \/>\nto his neatly folded uniform<br \/>\nwhich was put on top of his closed casket<br \/>\nand all were buried in Illinois dirt.<br \/>\nThe reasons for the war and its continuation<br \/>\nhave also been scraped together,<br \/>\nand that mess, too, will be buried<br \/>\nwith what is left of honor.<br \/>\nSomeday Jeffrey&#8217;s daughter Ava Grace,<br \/>\nwhom he never saw,<br \/>\nmay dig them up<br \/>\nand try to understand<br \/>\nwhat her father died for.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em><b>Tom Greening:<\/b> \u201cI engage in five professional activities:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Faculty Member at Saybrook University<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Private Practice of Psychotherapy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Clinical Professor of Psychology, UCLA<\/em><br \/>\n<em>International Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Writing (Poetry).\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomgreening.com\" >www.tomgreening.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the IED blew<br \/>\non the bridge over the Tigris River<br \/>\nthe medics scraped the body parts<br \/>\nthat had once been Jeffrey R. Wallace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}