{"id":40168,"date":"2017-03-09T00:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=40168"},"modified":"2017-03-09T01:46:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:46:24","slug":"fort-bragg-headstone-recalls-the-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/09\/fort-bragg-headstone-recalls-the-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Bragg Headstone Recalls the Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/evidence-of-people-on-fort-bragg-land-goes-back-over-14-000-years-1.457270?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+starsandstripes%2Fgeneral+%28Stars+and+Stripes%29#gallery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40169\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/braggcemetery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/braggcemetery.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/braggcemetery-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/braggcemetery-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/a>When a highway was widened on Fort Bragg several years ago, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/evidence-of-people-on-fort-bragg-land-goes-back-over-14-000-years-1.457270\">prehistoric remains<\/a>&#8221; were recovered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The only surviving remains came from the hardest part of the body &#8211; tooth enamel &#8211; estimated to date to 5,000 B.C.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of the remains, coupled with requirements of a 1990 law known as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, spurred a partnership with modern Indian tribes&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ultimately, Fort Bragg worked with the tribes to <!--more-->determine a place to inter the remains, and ultimately decided upon the Main Post cemetery. There was one hitch:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fort Bragg officials required the remains be marked with a headstone that met military regulations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus was born the headstone marked simply, &#8220;Known Only to the Creator,&#8221; which seems to recall the Tomb of the Unknowns, which ends with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arlingtoncemetery.mil\/Explore\/Tomb-of-the-Unknown-Soldier\">Known but to God<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is fitting that Fort Bragg would mark the grave with such a reminder of God, as death and mortality are sometimes man&#8217;s most significant inspiration to call upon their Creator.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Photo credit: Andrew Craft \/The Fayetteville Observer via The Associated Press<\/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>When a highway was widened on Fort Bragg several years ago, &#8220;prehistoric remains&#8221; were recovered: The only surviving remains came from the hardest part of the body &#8211; tooth enamel &#8211; estimated to date to 5,000 B.C. The discovery of the remains, coupled with requirements of a 1990 law known as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, spurred [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6132,1023,2601,2,10],"class_list":["post-40168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-cemetery","tag-fort-bragg","tag-indian","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40168","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=40168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}