{"id":14226,"date":"2011-11-22T00:45:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T05:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14226"},"modified":"2011-11-22T00:06:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T05:06:57","slug":"rabbi-becomes-armys-newest-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/rabbi-becomes-armys-newest-chaplain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Becomes Army&#8217;s Newest Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Michael Gisser <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.journalnow.com\/news\/2011\/nov\/14\/wsmet01-for-wake-forest-chaplain-new-role-has-spec-ar-1606552\/\">officially became a Chaplain in the US Army Reserve<\/a> on Veteran&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 Why Veteran&#8217;s Day?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t be here if not for the U.S. Army and the Allied forces,&#8221; said Gisser, the associate chaplain for Jewish life at Wake Forest University&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>His father, a native of Lodz, Poland, was a prisoner in <!--more-->the Dachau concentration camp during World War II. He was down to 45 pounds and nearing death when American soldiers liberated the camp in April 1945.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gisser wanted to &#8220;give back to American and its military,&#8221; so he decided to become a chaplain, though he had to become a US citizen first.<\/p>\n<p>In describing the role of a chaplain, another Jewish chaplain, Chaplain (Col) Barry Baron, recounted an interesting perspective on providing support to those of other faiths:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I used to carry around metal crosses and rosaries because people asked for them,&#8221; said Baron, who has been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/armychaplaincy.com\/for-wake-forest-chaplain-new-role-has-special-meaning\/\">ArmyChaplaincy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Michael Gisser officially became a Chaplain in the US Army Reserve on Veteran&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 Why Veteran&#8217;s Day? &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t be here if not for the U.S. Army and the Allied forces,&#8221; said Gisser, the associate chaplain for Jewish life at Wake Forest University&#8230; His father, a native of Lodz, Poland, was a prisoner in<\/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":[88,2471,5284,39,2470,2,10,171,123],"class_list":["post-14226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-barry-baron","tag-chaplain","tag-jewish","tag-michael-gisser","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14226","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=14226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}