{"id":22812,"date":"2013-05-23T02:08:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T05:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22812"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:28:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:28:22","slug":"veterans-affairs-adds-thors-hammer-to-approved-symbol-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/23\/veterans-affairs-adds-thors-hammer-to-approved-symbol-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Affairs Adds Thor&#8217;s Hammer to Approved Symbol List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Veteran&#8217;s Affairs has added &#8220;Thor&#8217;s Hammer&#8221; to the list of approved emblems that may be placed on headstones in VA cemeteries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/thor2.jpg\" width=\"176\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who knew <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0800369\/\">the Marvel movie<\/a> was actually a documentary?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cem.va.gov\/hmm\/emblems.asp\">The VA list<\/a> already includes a variety of obscure symbols, including Eckankar, Seicho-No-Ie, an atomic-A (for atheism), the humanist H, and a &#8220;landing eagle,&#8221; which <!--more-->appears to be connected to no &#8220;belief system&#8221; at all.<\/p>\n<p>Any next of kin (or their designated representative) can request a unique symbol.\u00a0 The last substantial controversy over the list <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/17\/a-wiccan-symbol-on-a-va-memorial\/\">was several years ago<\/a>, when\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/wiccan-lawsuit-against-va-settled\/\">pagan sued<\/a> to have the pentacle added to the list.\u00a0 The VA acquiesced.<\/p>\n<p>Why the VA ever needed to have a list of &#8220;approved&#8221; symbols to begin with is a fact lost to time, apparently.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Veteran&#8217;s Affairs has added &#8220;Thor&#8217;s Hammer&#8221; to the list of approved emblems that may be placed on headstones in VA cemeteries. Who knew the Marvel movie was actually a documentary? The VA list already includes a variety of obscure symbols, including Eckankar, Seicho-No-Ie, an atomic-A (for atheism), the humanist H, and a &#8220;landing eagle,&#8221; which<\/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":[20,4027,4025,730,4029,2,4028,4026,4024,2337,1813],"class_list":["post-22812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-atheism","tag-eckankar","tag-hammer","tag-humanist","tag-landing-eagle","tag-military","tag-seicho-no-ie","tag-symbol","tag-thor","tag-va","tag-veterans-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812","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=22812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}