{"id":43736,"date":"2018-09-25T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T03:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43736"},"modified":"2021-04-01T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:28:37","slug":"military-bases-commemorate-national-pow-mia-recognition-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/25\/military-bases-commemorate-national-pow-mia-recognition-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Bases Commemorate National POW\/MIA Recognition Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, 21 September 2018, was National POW\/MIA Recognition Day, which led US military facilities around the nation and the world to erect displays like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/image\/4771627\/recce-town-honors-pows\">this one<\/a>, at Beale Air Force Base:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46006\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/powmia2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/powmia2.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/powmia2-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/powmia2-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>An article from the Oregonian (repeated at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/national-pow-mia-recognition-day-offers-opportunity-to-reflect-on-american-courage-sacrifice-1.548685\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>) quoted John McCain in noting the POWs&#8217; spiritual source of strength &#8212; as represented by the Bible <!--more-->on the table [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was finding that <strong>prayer helped<\/strong>,&#8221; he later said of his time in solitary confinement, his broken bones left untreated. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a question of asking for superhuman strength or for God to strike the North Vietnamese dead. It was <strong>asking for moral and physical courage, for guidance and wisdom to do the right thing<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like so many of his fellow POWs, <strong>he received that guidance<\/strong> and exhibited great courage, for all Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/294207\/recce-town-honors-pows\">more<\/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>Last Friday, 21 September 2018, was National POW\/MIA Recognition Day, which led US military facilities around the nation and the world to erect displays like this one, at Beale Air Force Base: An article from the Oregonian (repeated at the Stars and Stripes) quoted John McCain in noting the POWs&#8217; spiritual source of strength &#8212; as represented by the Bible<\/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":[23,1020,85,2,5218,7,11,10,171],"class_list":["post-43736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-bible","tag-john-mccain","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-prayer","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43736","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=43736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46066,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43736\/revisions\/46066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}