{"id":1281,"date":"2014-05-26T09:03:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2014-05-26T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T14:03:31","slug":"memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"Mem\u00f3riam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Consider&#8230;\u00a0 What (if anything) is it that you love enough, believe in enough to GIVE your life to\/for it?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1284\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1284\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/memoriam\/rifle_and_helmet\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rifle_and_helmet.jpg?fit=389%2C463&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"389,463\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"rifle_and_helmet\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sacrifice:  to make holy&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rifle_and_helmet.jpg?fit=389%2C463&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1284\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rifle_and_helmet-252x300.jpg?resize=252%2C300\" alt=\"rifle_and_helmet\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rifle_and_helmet.jpg?resize=252%2C300&amp;ssl=1 252w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rifle_and_helmet.jpg?resize=126%2C150&amp;ssl=1 126w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rifle_and_helmet.jpg?resize=80%2C96&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rifle_and_helmet.jpg?w=389&amp;ssl=1 389w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacrifice:\u00a0 to make holy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When YOU are what is loved\/believed in that much &#8212;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> take a day to remember, to lend a bit of immortality to him who proved he loved\/believed in you that much.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><em>&#8220;&#8230; we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. &#8230; It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us\u2014that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> &#8212; Abraham Lincoln<\/h3>\n<h3>John 15:12-13<br \/>\n<em>\u201cThis is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you.&#8221;<\/em><\/h3>\n<h2>Mem\u00f3riam &#8212; Amen.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider&#8230;  What (if anything) is it that you love enough, believe in enough to GIVE your life to\/for it?<br \/>\nWhen YOU are what is loved\/believed in that much &#8212; take a day to remember, to lend a bit of immortality to him who proved he loved\/believed in you that much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[31,66,47,48],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-history","category-personalphilosophical","tag-courage","tag-history-2","tag-memoir","tag-religion","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1DORt-memoriam","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1356,"url":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/surveying\/","url_meta":{"origin":1281,"position":0},"title":"WHY SURVEYING?","author":"TonyC","date":"January 5, 2015","format":"gallery","excerpt":"What if Christopher Columbus had not set sail in 1492? 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