{"id":16696,"date":"2013-03-08T01:09:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T09:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=16696"},"modified":"2013-03-08T01:09:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T09:09:18","slug":"friday-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=16696","title":{"rendered":"Vets' Cast for Caribbean Princess"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this day and age, is there a more heartfelt group to support in America than military veterans?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Several weeks ago, Princess Cruises<\/a> announced its first cruise out of the new\/old cruise ship terminal in Houston this year. It's to support U.S. veterans, hopefully to the tune of $1 million to be divided between the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund<\/em> and Operation Homefront<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Nice touch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, for anyone who is moved by such events, come the names of those who will be on the Caribbean Princess<\/a> for five days in November, as part of the celebration. <\/span>\"\"<\/a>Decorating the ship will be two admirals (including one who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/em>), two generals, a famous war correspondent, a veterans' advocate who was shot in the head and nearly died in Iraq, and a Vietnam Vet who is now president and CEO of a cruise line.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, Princess is the line and Alan Buckelew is the vet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though the Joint Chiefs Chairman is Mike Mullen (left), who is know beyond military circles, the guest who caught our attention is Gregory Melikian.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until now, we had never heard of him. Probably you haven't, either, unless you're a military history nerd. Sixty-eight years ago from May 7, Gregory Melikian was a young sergeant with the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces<\/em> in France. His boss was Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who would become the U.S. President.<\/span><\/p>\n

At 3:30 that afternoon, Gregory Melikian — Eisenhower's telegraph operator — announced the end of World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n

How cool is that?<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tCarnival Legend<\/a>
\n\t12 nights
\n\tMay 28, 2013
\n\tVenice<\/a>, Dubrovnik<\/a>, Messina<\/a>, Naples<\/a>, Rome<\/a>, Florence<\/a>, Monaco<\/a>, Marseille<\/a>, Palma de Mallorca<\/a>, Barcelona<\/a>
\n\tInside:  $929
\n\tCost per day: $77<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this day and age, is there a more heartfelt group to support in America than military veterans? Several weeks ago, Princess Cruises announced its first cruise out of the new\/old cruise ship terminal in Houston this year. It's to support U.S. veterans, hopefully to the tune of $1 million to be divided between the… Continue reading Vets' Cast for Caribbean Princess<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[1190,137,564,154,1029,912,72,35,1191,30,1192,957,1193],"class_list":["post-16696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-admiral-mike-mullen","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-caribbean-princess","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-legend","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-joint-chiefs-of-staff","tag-mediterranean-cruise","tag-operation-homefront","tag-princess-cruises","tag-vietnam-veterans-memorial-fund","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}