{"id":28901,"date":"2014-05-16T00:30:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T03:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28901"},"modified":"2016-11-25T22:55:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T01:55:35","slug":"va-chaplain-ends-42-year-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/16\/va-chaplain-ends-42-year-career\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Chaplain Ends 42-Year Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local paper, repeated at the Stars and Stripes, highlights the fascinating story of 91-year-old VA Chaplain Ben Vegors, who has served at the Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial Veterans Affairs Medical Center\u2019s chapel for more than four decades.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Over the years], he\u2019s helped many men and women recover their faith as their bodies recovered from the effects of military service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere in the chapel it\u2019s been a real good thing,\u201d said Vegors, his voice rich with the memory. \u201cI\u2019ve directed hundreds back to their churches.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story starts much earlier, with his conversion in 1940 and his service in B-24s during World War II. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/veterans\/va-chaplain-brings-end-to-heaven-on-earth-career-1.278570\">full story here<\/a>.<\/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>A local paper, repeated at the Stars and Stripes, highlights the fascinating story of 91-year-old VA Chaplain Ben Vegors, who has served at the Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial Veterans Affairs Medical Center\u2019s chapel for more than four decades. [Over the years], he\u2019s helped many men and women recover their faith as their bodies recovered from the effects of military service. [&#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":[2753,4742,5284,4743,2,123],"class_list":["post-28901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-b-24","tag-ben-vegors","tag-chaplain","tag-jonathan-wainwright-memorial","tag-military","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901","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=28901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}