{"id":30016,"date":"2014-10-16T00:10:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T03:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30016"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:09:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:09:49","slug":"wwii-vet-receives-norse-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/wwii-vet-receives-norse-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII Vet Receives Norse Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"width: 207px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/viking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The US Navy routinely performs <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/uss-bataan-raises-church-pennant-for-burial-at-sea\/\">burials at sea<\/a> for qualified veterans, ceremonies that follow religious traditions despite the complaints of some who see a collusion between religion and the military.<\/p>\n<p>The US Coast Guard recently performed a ceremony for World War II veteran Andrew Haines, and it honored his request as well &#8212; for what the Navy Times called a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/article\/20141002\/NEWS03\/310020066\/Service-gives-WWII-vet-a-rare-send-off\">Viking funeral<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Haines&#8230;wanted a burial at sea&#8230;. On Sept. 29, the Station Atlantic City Coast Guard conducted the burial about three miles off the coast of New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>[The] handcrafted wooden Norse-style vessel&#8230;was lowered into a recess on the Coast Guard ship, where the shavings inside the boat were lighted with a flare and pushed out to sea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Boatswain\u2019s Mate 1st Class Christopher Fonseca, the unit&#8217;s operations officer, <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>said he\u2019d done a few burials at sea in his career \u2014 they are free to any military veteran \u2014 but never one this elaborate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/stripes-central\/stripes-central-1.8040\/wwii-vet-receives-a-norse-style-burial-1.306501\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/span><\/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 Navy routinely performs burials at sea for qualified veterans, ceremonies that follow religious traditions despite the complaints of some who see a collusion between religion and the military. The US Coast Guard recently performed a ceremony for World War II veteran Andrew Haines, and it honored his request as well &#8212; for what the Navy Times called a [&#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":[4910,4913,4914,820,2,36,2608,4911,17,10,171,40,4912],"class_list":["post-30016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-andrew-haines","tag-atlantic-city","tag-christopher-fonseca","tag-coast-guard","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-new-jersey","tag-norse","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-tradition","tag-viking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30016","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=30016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}