{"id":25584,"date":"2013-09-25T00:50:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T03:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25584"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:44:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:44:11","slug":"army-prayer-breakfast-recalls-world-trade-center-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/25\/army-prayer-breakfast-recalls-world-trade-center-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Prayer Breakfast Recalls World Trade Center Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 11 September 2013, more than 400 Soldiers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/113721\/wranglers-remember-fallen-host-9-11-prayer-breakfast\">attended a Memorial Prayer Breakfast<\/a> hosted at the Spirit of Fort Hood chapel.\u00a0 The guest speaker was retired US Navy Chaplain Ron Swafford, who was one of the few to visit Ground Zero after the attacks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI just happened to be there the day that they found those crossed I-Beams that came out of the rubble forming a cross,\u201d he recalled. \u201cIt was quite impressive because all the workers just stopped and gathered <!--more-->around and they realized&#8230;because the care givers in New York are very religious,\u201d Swafford said.<\/p>\n<p>Swafford said that you could feel a sense God was there protecting those workers and helping them find any survivors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It may be no small irony that the same cross Chaplain Swafford saw as a significant spiritual event was the subject of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/dispatches\/guest_bloggers\/7293\/the_unholy_battle_over_the_ground_zero_cross\/\">lawsuit by a group of atheists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, within the US military men and women can still gather and celebrate their faith, even if others may disagree.<\/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>On 11 September 2013, more than 400 Soldiers attended a Memorial Prayer Breakfast hosted at the Spirit of Fort Hood chapel.\u00a0 The guest speaker was retired US Navy Chaplain Ron Swafford, who was one of the few to visit Ground Zero after the attacks: \u201cI just happened to be there the day that they found those crossed I-Beams that came [&#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":[20,38,5284,162,97,2,36,11,17,10,171,4300],"class_list":["post-25584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-atheism","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-cross","tag-fort-hood","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-ron-swafford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25584","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=25584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}