{"id":14721,"date":"2011-12-14T01:15:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T04:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14721"},"modified":"2011-12-14T02:01:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T05:01:18","slug":"congressman-hunter-defends-camp-pendleton-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/congressman-hunter-defends-camp-pendleton-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Hunter Defends Camp Pendleton Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) sent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/static\/projects\/pages\/hunter-letter-pendleton-121311.pdf\">a letter<\/a> to Camp Pendleton&#8217;s commanding officer Colonel Nicholas Marano <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2011\/12\/marine-pendleton-duncan-hunter-wants-keep-memorial-cross-121311w\/\">indicating his support<\/a> for allowing the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/atheists-object-to-camp-pendleton-cross\/\">now-controversial<\/a> memorial <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/us-marines-raise-memorial-cross-at-camp-pendleton\/\">cross<\/a> to remain standing in order to honor four US Marines <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2011\/12\/lawmaker-urges-keeping-cross-camp-pendleton.html\">who fell in Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Majs. Douglas Zembiec and Ramon Mendoza, and Lance Cpls. Robert Zurheide and Aaron Austin..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What makes Hunter&#8217;s call unique, besides his status as a member of Congress?<\/p>\n<p>He was there.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was during this time that I served alongside Major Douglas Zembiec and many other Marines who gave everything they had, some of whom made the ultimate sacrifice&#8230;Honoring these and other Marines with a memorial at Camp Pendleton is a fitting tribute that represents the fighting spirit of the Marine Corps and extraordinary personal sacrifice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rep Hunter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunterin08.com\/bio\/\">served<\/a> in the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, as did some of the fallen Marines.\u00a0 Hunter was in the 1st Battalion, 11th Marines, in Fallujah in 2004, when two others fell.<\/p>\n<p>The Thomas More Law Center has also written a letter on behalf of Elena Zurheide, widow of one of the fallen Marines, asking Col Marano to allow the cross to stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) sent a letter to Camp Pendleton&#8217;s commanding officer Colonel Nicholas Marano indicating his support for allowing the now-controversial memorial cross to remain standing in order to honor four US Marines who fell in Iraq: Majs. Douglas Zembiec and Ramon Mendoza, and Lance Cpls. Robert Zurheide and Aaron Austin.. What makes Hunter&#8217;s call unique, besides his [&#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":[2429,20,891,96,4,82,2427,1365,2620,19,253,107,149,2,2542,2619,10,171,2430,1748],"class_list":["post-14721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-aaron-austin","tag-atheism","tag-camp-pendleton","tag-christian","tag-churchandstate","tag-constitution","tag-douglas-zembiec","tag-duncan-hunter","tag-elena-zurheide","tag-government","tag-jason-torpy","tag-maaf","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-nick-marano","tag-ramon-mendoza","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-robert-zurheide","tag-thomas-more"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14721","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=14721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}