{"id":13181,"date":"2011-09-14T00:36:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T05:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13181"},"modified":"2011-09-14T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T05:45:07","slug":"chaplain-supports-return-of-the-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/chaplain-supports-return-of-the-fallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Supports Return of the Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (LtCol) Dennis Saucier is the senior staff Chaplain of the Air Force Mortuary Affairs at Dover Air Force Base &#8212; where all the fallen American military heroes return.\u00a0 An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianchronicle.org\/article2159466~Air_Force_chaplain_welcomes_the_fallen_home\">article from\u00a0a Church of Christ news site<\/a> notes the role of the Chaplains in their return.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Dignified Transfer is a key focus of Saucier\u2019s work. Chaplains offer prayers during the ceremony, thanking God <!--more-->for the soldiers\u2019 hearts of service, asking the Almighty to help Americans live lives worthy of each one\u2019s sacrifice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Chaplains minister to the families of the fallen, as well as the members of the military who process the remains.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are the rod and staff that God uses to help these families through this very brief &#8212; but very intense &#8212; time,&#8221; Saucier said. &#8220;We hope that, by being there with them, they are made aware of God\u2019s presence, that God is very real and cares about them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (LtCol) Dennis Saucier is the senior staff Chaplain of the Air Force Mortuary Affairs at Dover Air Force Base &#8212; where all the fallen American military heroes return.\u00a0 An article from\u00a0a Church of Christ news site notes the role of the Chaplains in their return. The Dignified Transfer is a key focus of Saucier\u2019s work. Chaplains offer prayers during [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[134,5284,2205,2206,2204,2,11,10],"class_list":["post-13181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-air-force","tag-chaplain","tag-dennis-saucier","tag-dignified-transfer","tag-dover","tag-military","tag-prayer","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}