{"id":13657,"date":"2011-10-17T01:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T06:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13657"},"modified":"2011-10-17T00:43:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T05:43:58","slug":"jewish-arlington-memorial-to-be-dedicated-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/jewish-arlington-memorial-to-be-dedicated-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Arlington Memorial to be Dedicated Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jewish Chaplains Memorial that will join the others at Chaplain&#8217;s Hill in Arlington will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewsingreen.com\/2011\/10\/jewish-chaplains-memorial-dedication\/\">dedicated in a ceremony next Monday<\/a>, 24 October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/arlington-jewish-chaplains-monument-moves-forward\/\">The memorial<\/a> is a bronze plaque with the names of the 14 Jewish Chaplains who died while on duty from 1943 to 1974; at the top are two lions bracketing the Jewish chaplains&#8217; insignia, which is two tablets with a Star of David on top.<\/p>\n<p>As a point of trivia, none of the chaplains memorialized <!--more-->on the plaque actually wore that insignia.\u00a0 From 1917 to 1981, the tablets had Roman numerals; Jewish chaplains successfully changed their insignia in the early 1980s to use Hebrew letters.<\/p>\n<p>The history of <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/military-chaplains-consider-universal-badge\/\">chaplain insignia<\/a>, including the Shepherd&#8217;s crook and even a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/23\/chaplain-candidate-quits-over-insignia\/\">Messianic controversy<\/a>, is an interesting one for another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jewish Chaplains Memorial that will join the others at Chaplain&#8217;s Hill in Arlington will be dedicated in a ceremony next Monday, 24 October. The memorial is a bronze plaque with the names of the 14 Jewish Chaplains who died while on duty from 1943 to 1974; at the top are two lions bracketing the Jewish chaplains&#8217; insignia, which is [&#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":[1490,5284,1876,39,2,10],"class_list":["post-13657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-arlington","tag-chaplain","tag-hebrew","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657","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=13657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}