{"id":19922,"date":"2012-10-22T01:58:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T04:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19922"},"modified":"2012-10-22T01:58:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T04:58:39","slug":"seabees-help-chaplain-support-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/seabees-help-chaplain-support-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Seabees Help Chaplain Support Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (LtCmdr) Neal Kreisler traveled with some unique kit to support the spiritual fitness of the troops he served, but not all the pieces made the transit.\u00a0 So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/95715\/sukkot-holiday-camp-leatherneck-brings-joy-jewish-service-members\">he got a little help<\/a>.\u00a0 Kreisler<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>brought a kosher Sukkah, or a small dwelling used outside the home during the holiday, that those practicing Judaism believe represents the Clouds of Glory by which the Israelites were protected after their exodus from Egypt&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While in transit, a piece of the Sukkah was lost and Rabbi <!--more-->Kreisler enlisted the help of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 to build the missing components.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the Seabees strongly approved:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Petty Officer Third Class Aaron Hutnick [said]It means a lot that they would send a Rabbi all the way out here to celebrate the holiday, and to have the Seabees be a part of that is pretty powerful.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Islamic extremists (and even some American critics of religious freedom) would likely be a bit put off by the thought of celebrations of the Jewish faith occurring on Afghan soil, courtesy of the US Navy, no less.<\/p>\n<p>But the US and its military value freedom.\u00a0 That and they generally kill their extremist enemies, rather than worry about offending them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (LtCmdr) Neal Kreisler traveled with some unique kit to support the spiritual fitness of the troops he served, but not all the pieces made the transit.\u00a0 So he got a little help.\u00a0 Kreisler brought a kosher Sukkah, or a small dwelling used outside the home during the holiday, that those practicing Judaism believe represents the Clouds of Glory by [&#8230;]<\/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":[3647,58,5284,888,39,2,36,3646,743,10,171,2873,2357],"class_list":["post-19922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-aaron-hutnick","tag-afghanistan","tag-chaplain","tag-israel","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-neal-kreisler","tag-rabbi","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-seabees","tag-sukkot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922","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=19922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}