{"id":1341,"date":"2009-10-07T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T07:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:20:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:20:15","slug":"us-marine-the-holy-man-killed-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/us-marine-the-holy-man-killed-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"US Marine, “The Holy Man,” Killed in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

In early September, the Associated Press made waves when it decided to publish a photograph<\/a> of\u00a0a mortally wounded\u00a0Marine against the wishes of the Marine’s family.\u00a0 Regrettably, lost in the controversy was the story of the Marine himself.\u00a0 He was a young Christian man who gave up his life in the way he lived it: in the service of others.<\/p>\n

Lance Corporal Joshua M. “Bernie” Bernard was a 21-year old homeschooled Marine from New Portland, Maine<\/a>.\u00a0 He was an active member of the youth group at his church, and he was “an unassuming and intelligent man who was an integral part of his church community.”\u00a0 He was known for his desire to serve, which influenced his decision to follow his father’s path and join the Marines.<\/p>\n

Though the story was largely lost in the national press, local stories describe how Bernard picked up the role of his unit’s religious leader–his unit didn’t have a Chaplain, and Bernard had a reputation as a man of faith.\u00a0 His fellow Marines reportedly called him<\/a> “The Holy Man.”<\/p>\n

During his time as a Marine, fellow service members gave the religious Bernard the nickname “The Holy Man,” Grooms said. “He was a great example for Christ and a great witness,” said Grooms, who works for the Bernard family business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By all accounts, he was a faithful man of God who answered his Country’s call.\u00a0 Marine Lance Corporal Bernard was killed in action on 21 August 2009, and was survived by his parents and sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In early September, the Associated Press made waves when it decided to publish a photograph of\u00a0a mortally wounded\u00a0Marine against the wishes of the Marine’s family.\u00a0 Regrettably, lost in the controversy was the story of the Marine himself.\u00a0 He was a young Christian man who gave up his life in the way he lived it: in the service of others. Lance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[58,4,2,17,10],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-afghanistan","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","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=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}