{"id":17569,"date":"2012-04-30T01:15:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T04:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17569"},"modified":"2012-09-16T18:40:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T21:40:37","slug":"second-camp-pendleton-memorial-cross-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/second-camp-pendleton-memorial-cross-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Camp Pendleton Memorial Cross on Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The as-yet undecided case of <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/camp-pendleton-cross-decision-expected-atheists-threaten-suit\/\">the Camp Pendleton cross<\/a>, a memorial facing complaints by atheists, has actually impacted a second, unrelated cross.\u00a0 LCpl Benjamin Whetstone Schmidt was killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire, and members of his platoon had apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/military\/article\/Dispute-grounds-10-foot-cross-3517059.php\">planned to erect a cross on an overlooking hill<\/a> on Camp Pendleton:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But because of a pending military review of placement of religious symbols, the parents of Lance Cpl. Benjamin Whetstone Schmidt <!--more-->learned when visiting Camp Pendleton, Calif., two weeks ago that a 10-foot cross his buddies made could not be planted on Old Smokey, a mountain with a view of the Pacific Ocean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The visit two weeks ago apparently included the long-planned trip to the mountain top to erect the cross, &#8220;but the base canceled the event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Camp Pendleton spokeswoman confirmed there is a ban on placement of religious symbols until a decision is made on the existing cross and a policy on future memorials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article says Old Smokey is a place of reflection that already hosts &#8220;several crosses&#8221; that are &#8220;4-5 feet high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jason Torpy, the man behind the complaints, said the family shouldn&#8217;t blame him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The as-yet undecided case of the Camp Pendleton cross, a memorial facing complaints by atheists, has actually impacted a second, unrelated cross.\u00a0 LCpl Benjamin Whetstone Schmidt was killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire, and members of his platoon had apparently planned to erect a cross on an overlooking hill on Camp Pendleton: But because of a pending military review of [&#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":[58,3219,3577,891,4,162,253,149,2,3220,3221],"class_list":["post-17569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-benjamin-whetstone","tag-benjamin-whetstone-schmidt","tag-camp-pendleton","tag-churchandstate","tag-cross","tag-jason-torpy","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-old-smokey","tag-sniper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569","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=17569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}