{"id":7802,"date":"2010-10-29T00:25:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T06:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7802"},"modified":"2010-10-24T18:56:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T00:56:30","slug":"fort-campbell-breaks-ground-on-8-4m-chapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/29\/fort-campbell-breaks-ground-on-8-4m-chapel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Campbell Breaks Ground on $8.4M Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An effort by local businesses and military leaders has garnered the sprawling Fort Campbell military facility the finances it requires to build a new chapel.\u00a0 A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/DA\/20101022\/OPINION01\/10220317\/EDITORIAL++Lobby+effort+pays+off\">group of 55 local business leaders and public officials<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>explained to lawmakers that at that time, Fort Campbell was at only 31 percent of the military requirement for chapels. The existing chapels \u2014 aging World War II-era &#8220;temporary&#8221; structures \u2014 often had inadequate capacity for Eagle Remembrance ceremonies to honor fallen comrades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The large facility will allow assemblies of over 1,200 and provide space for a variety of religious services.\u00a0 The local paper editorializes:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not all attention and funding can be directed toward the war effort. The spiritual and morale needs of our soldiers and their families here at home also must be met.<\/p>\n<p>This chapel complex will make a positive difference in the lives of those who have made so many sacrifices for their country. We look forward to its completion and thank everyone who had a hand in securing that funding during tight economic times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The religious needs of military posts\/bases of this size are significant.\u00a0 Fort <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/10\/15\/46658-frontier-chapel-serves-expanding-congregation\/\">Leavenworth\u00a0hosts nearly 70 religious services a month<\/a> with an annual attendance nearing 200,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An effort by local businesses and military leaders has garnered the sprawling Fort Campbell military facility the finances it requires to build a new chapel.\u00a0 A group of 55 local business leaders and public officials explained to lawmakers that at that time, Fort Campbell was at only 31 percent of the military requirement for chapels. The existing chapels \u2014 aging [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[38,5284,4,1124,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-7802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-fort-campbell","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7802","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=7802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}