{"id":24444,"date":"2013-07-24T00:42:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T03:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=24444"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:11:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:11:53","slug":"angel-statue-graces-dover-afb-meditation-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/24\/angel-statue-graces-dover-afb-meditation-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Statue Graces Dover AFB Meditation Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/doversculpt.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dover Air Force Base recently erected a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dover.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123356833\">sculpture in the meditation garden<\/a> of the Center for the Families of the Fallen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bronze sculpture depicting a guardian angel holding and protecting a wounded soldier will sit in the meditation garden <!--more-->at the Center for the Families of the Fallen. It is meant to serve as a quiet reflection on the sacrifices made by the nation&#8217;s fallen soldiers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The sculpture, called The Angel and the Dying Unknown, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2013\/07\/23\/sculpture-comforts-families-of-war-dead\/2577363\/\">created by Greg Wyatt<\/a>.\u00a0 Wyatt is the director of the Newington-Cropsey Foundation&#8217;s Academy of Art, as well as sculptor-in-residence for the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Articles describing the sculpture use words like &#8220;rough-hewn&#8221; and using &#8220;sharp muscular detail with Impressionism&#8217;s short, quick strokes&#8221; to convey the somewhat atypical presentation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A rough-hewn angel in bronze has swept down to gather up a fallen soldier whose wide-eyed stare and parted lips say, unmistakably, that life is slipping away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In Wyatt&#8217;s depiction, the divine descends from above to cradle a dying veteran, rewarding his faith with spiritual comfort in the final hour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The donated sculpture intends to comfort, inspire reflection, and help the grieving process of those who have lost loved ones in military service.<\/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>Dover Air Force Base recently erected a sculpture in the meditation garden of the Center for the Families of the Fallen: The bronze sculpture depicting a guardian angel holding and protecting a wounded soldier will sit in the meditation garden<\/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":[4172,4176,2204,4173,4174,2,4175,10],"class_list":["post-24444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-angel","tag-cathedral-church-of-st-john-the-divine","tag-dover","tag-families-of-the-fallen","tag-greg-wyatt","tag-military","tag-newington-cropsey","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24444","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=24444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}