Not moments in history to be celebrated but certainly to be remembered.<\/p>\n
67 years ago today, Germany invaded<\/a> Poland and triggered the Second World War. I provided a little more thought and information in my post<\/a> last year. More reading on the invasion can be found here<\/a> and here<\/a>. Also, don’t miss Case White Directive No. 1<\/a>, Hitler’s orders for the invasion.<\/p>\n Today also marks to two-year anniversary of the day when Chechen terrorists stormed a school in Beslan<\/a>, taking more than 1200 hostages on a day Ralph Peters described<\/a> as when the killers came for the kids. The Jawa Report<\/a> marks the date and remembers the ensuing massacre that cost the lives of 344 civilians, including 186 children, here<\/a> and graphically here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not moments in history to be celebrated but certainly to be remembered. 67 years ago today, Germany invaded Poland and triggered the Second World War. I provided a little more thought and information in my post last year. More reading on the invasion can be found here and here. Also, don’t miss Case White Directive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-military-history","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}