{"id":14102,"date":"2011-11-16T02:30:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T07:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14102"},"modified":"2011-11-15T23:48:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T04:48:46","slug":"soldiers-sacrifice-inspires-chaplains-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/soldiers-sacrifice-inspires-chaplains-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier&#8217;s Sacrifice Inspires Chaplain&#8217;s Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Chaplain (Capt) Todd Cheney tells the inspiring story of how a young member of his civilian congregation joined the Army, got married, and was killed soon after in combat in Afghanistan &#8212; and how Adam Kinser&#8217;s sacrifice\u00a0led him to the chaplaincy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was so touched by this young man&#8217;s service,&#8221; Cheney said&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis was when Cheney first <!--more-->began to contemplate a life in camouflaged cloth.<\/p>\n<p>Military chaplains were assigned to coordinate the memorial services and to help the family as they grieved. During a rehearsal, one of the Reserve chaplains approached Cheney and asked him to consider joining the military as a chaplain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After more research and a lot of prayer, the couple decided together that active [duty] was the way to go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chaplain Cheney is now deployed to Afghanistan, serving &#8212; and inspiring &#8212; the Soldiers whose sacrifice inspires others.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/68990\/Soldier_s_sacrifice_leads_chaplain_back_to_Army_service\/\">the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/armychaplaincy.com\/soldiers-sacrifice-leads-chaplain-back-to-army-service\/\">ArmyChaplaincy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Chaplain (Capt) Todd Cheney tells the inspiring story of how a young member of his civilian congregation joined the Army, got married, and was killed soon after in combat in Afghanistan &#8212; and how Adam Kinser&#8217;s sacrifice\u00a0led him to the chaplaincy. &#8220;I was so touched by this young man&#8217;s service,&#8221; Cheney said&#8230; \u00a0 This was when Cheney first<\/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":[2435,58,88,5284,2,10,2434],"class_list":["post-14102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-adam-kinser","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-todd-cheney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102","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=14102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}