{"id":41443,"date":"2017-07-24T00:25:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T03:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=41443"},"modified":"2017-07-24T09:37:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:37:48","slug":"wwii-us-military-chapel-still-stands-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/24\/wwii-us-military-chapel-still-stands-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII US Military Chapel Still Stands in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41444\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/auschapel2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/auschapel2.png 400w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/auschapel2-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>The Stars and Stripes has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us-army-built-chapel-reminds-visitors-of-australia-s-wartime-past-1.479125\">interesting write up<\/a> on Saint Christopher&#8217;s Chapel, an open-air church built by the US Army during World War II:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The nondenominational Saint Christophers Chapel, built in 1943 by the Army\u2019s 542nd Engineer Battalion, is the only structure remaining from when Rockhampton served as a springboard and training location for Gen. Douglas MacArthur\u2019s World War II island-hopping campaign. The city hosted the 1st Cavalry Division and the 24th, 32nd and 41st infantry divisions on a half-dozen camps between 1942-44.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somewhat interesting that journalist Marcus Fichtl makes a <!--more-->point of calling it a &#8220;nondenominational&#8221; chapel, given it bears a cross and\u00a0is named after a saint (a generally liturgical or Catholic practice).<\/p>\n<p>What are the chances that decades\u00a0from now a Christian chapel will still be standing on what was once Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan?<\/p>\n<p>For context, consider that while this chapel in Australia still has a cross 70 years after it was built, the crosses on <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2013\/01\/25\/crusader-crosses-removed-from-us-afghan-chapel\/\">two military chapels in Afghanistan<\/a> were removed within months &#8212; because someone was offended.<\/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 Stars and Stripes has an interesting write up on Saint Christopher&#8217;s Chapel, an open-air church built by the US Army during World War II: The nondenominational Saint Christophers Chapel, built in 1943 by the Army\u2019s 542nd Engineer Battalion, is the only structure remaining from when Rockhampton served as a springboard and training location for Gen. Douglas MacArthur\u2019s World War [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,1763,54,38,96,162,1262,2,17,10,171,5907],"class_list":["post-41443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-bagram","tag-catholic","tag-chapel","tag-christian","tag-cross","tag-douglas-macarthur","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-saint-christopher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41443","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=41443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}