{"id":44939,"date":"2020-01-27T11:47:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=44939"},"modified":"2021-05-24T09:52:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T12:52:25","slug":"crosses-mark-american-cemetery-in-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/27\/crosses-mark-american-cemetery-in-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosses Mark American Cemetery in World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/344981\/red-arrow-soldier-laid-rest-wisconsin-75-years-after-his-death-new-guinea-during-world-war-ii\">old US Army photograph<\/a> from May of 1943, locals stack crosses on the edge of a field to mark the graves of US servicemen killed in action in New Guinea. In the background, you can see crosses apparently hastily assembled from sticks marking more graves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46268\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/guineacrosses3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2118\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/guineacrosses3.jpg 2118w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/guineacrosses3-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/guineacrosses3-1024x387.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/guineacrosses3-768x290.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/guineacrosses3-1536x580.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/guineacrosses3-2048x774.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2118px) 100vw, 2118px\" \/>It was not an attempt to Christianize the US military, nor was <!--more-->there an assumption that every US serviceman believed that Jesus Christ was his Savior. Yet today, such grave markers would be considered an affront to atheist sensibilities &#8212; to the extent that crosses are pulled down along highways and memorials erected in the US at about the same time have to be saved by the US Supreme Court &#8212; where even two Justices thought the cross <em>should<\/em> be torn down.<\/p>\n<p>Society has changed much since then, it would seem.<\/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>In an old US Army photograph from May of 1943, locals stack crosses on the edge of a field to mark the graves of US servicemen killed in action in New Guinea. In the background, you can see crosses apparently hastily assembled from sticks marking more graves. It was not an attempt to Christianize the US military, nor was<\/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":[96,162,2,6799,10,171,457],"class_list":["post-44939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christian","tag-cross","tag-military","tag-new-guinea","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44939","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=44939"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46269,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44939\/revisions\/46269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}