{"id":13769,"date":"2011-10-25T01:14:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T06:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13769"},"modified":"2011-10-25T01:14:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T06:14:12","slug":"arlington-dedicates-jewish-chaplains-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/arlington-dedicates-jewish-chaplains-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington Dedicates Jewish Chaplains&#8217; Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/jewish-arlington-memorial-to-be-dedicated-next-week\/\">noted last week<\/a>, Arlington National Cemetery&#8217;s Jewish Chaplains&#8217; Memorial was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/10\/ap-jewish-chaplain-memorial-dedicated-at-arlington-102411w\/\">added to Chaplains&#8217; Hill<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/10\/24\/jewish-chaplains-honored-at-arlington-national-cemetery\/\">dedicated yesterday<\/a>.\u00a0 Despite the claims of some military atheists, speakers at the event noted there are chaplains on the front lines of America&#8217;s battles, serving the troops who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=65796\">serve their country<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The 14 men we honor today were rabbis in uniform,&#8221; said Maj. Gen. Cecil Richardson, the Air Force chief of chaplains. &#8220;These men did much more than preach sermons. &#8230; They walked where warriors walked, and that is what made them military chaplains.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Right now there are over 800 chaplains &#8212; Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine &#8212; deployed at locations throughout the world in dangerous places. At this moment, chaplains and chaplain assistants are transforming places in the harshest environments into sacred places of worship and hope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Faith is the most powerful weapon in our military&#8217;s arsenal,&#8221; said Republican Rep. Jeff Miller of Florida. &#8220;Through the service of our military chaplains, our soldiers are never alone.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted last week, Arlington National Cemetery&#8217;s Jewish Chaplains&#8217; Memorial was added to Chaplains&#8217; Hill and dedicated yesterday.\u00a0 Despite the claims of some military atheists, speakers at the event noted there are chaplains on the front lines of America&#8217;s battles, serving the troops who serve their country: &#8220;The 14 men we honor today were rabbis in uniform,&#8221; said Maj. Gen. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1490,506,5284,1876,2341,39,2,10],"class_list":["post-13769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-arlington","tag-cecil-richardson","tag-chaplain","tag-hebrew","tag-jeff-miller","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13769","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=13769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}