{"id":9497,"date":"2011-02-28T02:28:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T07:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2011-02-21T03:29:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T08:29:25","slug":"post-combat-us-soldiers-still-in-iraq-and-praying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/post-combat-us-soldiers-still-in-iraq-and-praying\/","title":{"rendered":"“Post-combat” US Soldiers Still in Iraq, and Praying"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Associated Press article printed in\u00a0New Zealand noted that combat may “officially” be over for US forces, but lethal threats still remain.<\/p>\n

However, the\u00a0picture chosen as the lede was far more interesting than the article itself:<\/p>\n

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US Army Lt Daniel McCord (left) Staff Sergeant Marc Krugh (centre) and Sergeant Christopher Torrentes, from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, pray before heading out on a patrol south of Baghdad. (AP)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

They\u00a0chose a\u00a0photo of the\u00a0men praying together\u00a0to communicate the character, attitude, seriousness, and heart of the US Soldiers.\u00a0 The picture is sincere, heartfelt, and even moving — despite being only vaguely connected to the topic of the article.\u00a0 It seems even newshounds are inexplicably drawn to the meaning-filled act of\u00a0Soldiers who join together to ask God’s protection and guidance as they\u00a0launch to\u00a0accomplish their mission.<\/p>\n

The full Associated Press picture<\/a> and article can be seen here.\u00a0 More photos of religion in the military can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Associated Press article printed in\u00a0New Zealand noted that combat may “officially” be over for US forces, but lethal threats still remain. However, the\u00a0picture chosen as the lede was far more interesting than the article itself: US Army Lt Daniel McCord (left) Staff Sergeant Marc Krugh (centre) and Sergeant Christopher Torrentes, from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, pray before heading […]<\/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":[88,1462,1460,52,1461,2,11,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-9497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-christopher-torrentes","tag-daniel-mccord","tag-iraq","tag-marc-krugh","tag-military","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497","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=9497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}