{"id":2560,"date":"2020-11-11T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T13:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2024-05-22T17:25:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:25:30","slug":"celebrating-americas-veterans-on-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2020\/11\/11\/celebrating-americas-veterans-on-veterans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating America&#8217;s Veterans Today and Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/John-Philip-Sousa-Image-for-Veterans-Day-Graphic-783x1024-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4396 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/John-Philip-Sousa-Image-for-Veterans-Day-Graphic-783x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"783\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/John-Philip-Sousa-Image-for-Veterans-Day-Graphic-783x1024-1.jpg 783w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/John-Philip-Sousa-Image-for-Veterans-Day-Graphic-783x1024-1-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/John-Philip-Sousa-Image-for-Veterans-Day-Graphic-783x1024-1-768x1004.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/a>As we celebrate another Veterans Day today, let us honor one of the many men and women who served our country with distinction.\u00a0 Between 1917 and 1918 the music of the nation\u2019s composers, lyricists, and music publishers was used to promote volunteerism and national support for America\u2019s involvement on both the war and home fronts because they believed \u201cthe singing army, whether it be a fighting army or a working army, could not be beaten.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0The March King, at the age of sixty-two, offered his services first to the U.S. Marines and then the U.S. Army, but his offer to each military branch was turned down because of his age.\u00a0 However, Captain William A. Moffett, commandant of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center outside of Chicago, heard of the Marine\u2019s and Army\u2019s rejection of John Philip Sousa\u2019s offer and immediately commissioned him as a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve to organize and train naval bands. Sousa agreed to the naval commission with the <em>proviso<\/em> that he be paid only one dollar each month for his services and be given the flexibility to temporarily step away from his military duties as needed to complete his civilian band\u2019s contracted performances.\u00a0 Sousa remained an active member of the U.S. Naval Reserve until he was de-commissioned in 1920.\u00a0 For his services to the Navy and the American government\u2019s Liberty Loan bond drives he earned the rank of Commander of the U.S. Naval Reserve Band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we celebrate another Veterans Day today, let us honor one of the many men and women who served our country with distinction.\u00a0 Between 1917 and 1918 the music of the nation\u2019s composers, lyricists, and music publishers was used to promote volunteerism and national support for America\u2019s involvement on both the war and home fronts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}