{"id":16954,"date":"2012-03-23T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T04:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16954"},"modified":"2012-03-21T23:43:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T02:43:40","slug":"medal-of-honor-recipient-on-prayer-and-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/medal-of-honor-recipient-on-prayer-and-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Medal of Honor Recipient on Prayer and Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SFC Leroy Petry, recipient of the Medal of Honor, recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=67544\">addressed the Pentagon&#8217;s National Prayer Breakfast<\/a> on the topics of prayer, faith, and resiliency.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur freedom of religion and freedom of practice of that religion in the military is one of our greatest assets to our fighting force,\u201d Sgt. 1st Class Leroy A. Petry told the audience&#8230;\u201cWe\u2019re truly blessed to <!--more-->be in existence in the best nation in the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For his part, Petry said he was raised Catholic but approached different denominations with &#8220;an open mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also cited the importance of a support structure for getting through life&#8217;s struggles, as well as the importance of faith in his own healing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Petry said his faith has helped him deal with his injuries. \u201cLeviticus 19:18 is one of the passages I like: \u2018Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people. Love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SFC Leroy Petry, recipient of the Medal of Honor, recently addressed the Pentagon&#8217;s National Prayer Breakfast on the topics of prayer, faith, and resiliency. \u201cOur freedom of religion and freedom of practice of that religion in the military is one of our greatest assets to our fighting force,\u201d Sgt. 1st Class Leroy A. Petry told the audience&#8230;\u201cWe\u2019re truly blessed to<\/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":[54,1955,91,237,63,11,10,171],"class_list":["post-16954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-catholic","tag-leroy-petry","tag-medal-of-honor","tag-national-prayer-breakfast","tag-pentagon","tag-prayer","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954","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=16954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}