{"id":5789,"date":"2010-05-28T11:15:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T16:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:17:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:17:17","slug":"memorial-day-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/05\/28\/memorial-day-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parades and political <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5791\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/Memorial-Day-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Memorial Day\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/>speeches this Memorial Day weekend remind us of the price of war.\u00a0 Unmentioned is the hidden cost: the socioeconomic inequality in who makes the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the nation &#8211; more of the dead are from poorer communities.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/\">Political science<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Douglas Kriner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/kriner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Kriner<\/a>, co-author of\u00a0&#8220;<em><a title=\"The Casualty Gap\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Casualty-Gap-Consequences-American-Inequalities\/dp\/0195390962\" target=\"_blank\">The Casualty Gap<\/a>: The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities<\/em>,&#8221; writes in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/\"><em>Los Angeles<\/em><\/a><em> Times<\/em> <a title=\"commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/cJXgyX\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a> about how this casualty gap is not part of our national dialogue.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The reason is clear: Casualty inequalities challenge our fundamental American values. Bringing a frank and honest discussion of the casualty gap into the public sphere could significantly alter the tenor of political discourse in Washington.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Doug Kriner, 617-358-4643, <a href=\"mailto:dkriner@bu.edu\">dkriner@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parades and political speeches this Memorial Day weekend remind us of the price of war.\u00a0 Unmentioned is the hidden cost: the socioeconomic inequality in who makes the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the nation &#8211; more of the dead are from poorer communities.\u00a0 Political science Professor Douglas Kriner, co-author of\u00a0&#8220;The Casualty Gap: The Causes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2966,2965,2967,2964,2892,2968],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5789"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5798,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions\/5798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}