{"id":18968,"date":"2012-08-08T01:27:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T04:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18968"},"modified":"2012-08-08T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T04:27:28","slug":"us-military-valor-site-now-includes-crosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/us-military-valor-site-now-includes-crosses\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military Valor Site Now includes Crosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The website created by the Defense Department to <a href=\"http:\/\/valor.defense.gov\/\">document recipients of military medals<\/a> (an attempt at deterring &#8220;stolen valor&#8221;), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=117369\">now includes<\/a> the nation&#8217;s second highest military honor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The site launched with the names of Medal of Honor recipients for actions since 9\/11, and now lists recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross, Air Force Cross and Navy Cross. The services are continuing to compile the lists of Silver Star recipients to add to the site, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18970 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/afcross-163x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"300\" \/>Atheists within the culture (and even &#8220;military atheists&#8221;) are actively trying to tear down military memorial crosses around the United States &#8212; from <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/mount-soledad-memorial-ruling-appealed-to-supreme-court\/\">San Diego<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/military-atheist-calls-for-removal-of-arlington-cross\/\">Arlington National Cemetery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When do you think atheists will go after the service crosses given to America&#8217;s &#8220;heroes,&#8221; second only to the Medal of Honor?\u00a0 Is that as much an offense as a memorial cross in a cemetery?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website created by the Defense Department to document recipients of military medals (an attempt at deterring &#8220;stolen valor&#8221;), now includes the nation&#8217;s second highest military honor: The site launched with the names of Medal of Honor recipients for actions since 9\/11, and now lists recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross, Air Force Cross and Navy Cross. The services are [&#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":[134,1490,20,162,91,2,36],"class_list":["post-18968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-arlington","tag-atheism","tag-cross","tag-medal-of-honor","tag-military","tag-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968","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=18968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}