{"id":9644,"date":"2011-02-21T02:57:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T07:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9644"},"modified":"2011-03-23T23:44:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T04:44:16","slug":"group-seeks-to-add-monument-to-arlingtons-chaplains-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/group-seeks-to-add-monument-to-arlingtons-chaplains-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Seeks to add Monument to Arlington&#8217;s Chaplains Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three monuments stand on Arlington National Cemetery&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arlingtoncemetery.mil\/visitor_information\/Chaplains_Hill_Monument.html\">Chaplains Hill<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arlingtoncemetery.mil\/descriptions\/chaplains_hill_monument.html\">text<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The oldest, standing in the center and installed in 1926, memorializes by name the 23 Chaplains who lost their lives in &#8220;the World War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To its left, the second monument, installed in 1989, memorializes by name the Catholic Chaplains who lost their lives in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>The final monument, raised in 1981, memorializes by name the 134 Protestant Chaplains who lost their lives in World Wars I and II.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of a monument to the 13 Jewish Chaplains <!--more-->who lost their lives in World War II, the Cold War, and Vietnam is an &#8220;oversight&#8221; that Jewish veterans&#8217; organizations have been trying to rectify for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Jews in Green notes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcca.org\/jwb-jewish-chaplains-council-leads-effort-to-establish-arlington-jewish-chaplains-memorial\/\">current push<\/a> to get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewsingreen.com\/home\/blog\/comments\/jewish_chaplain_memorial_back_on_track\/\">required Congressional approval<\/a> for the additional monument.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) have introduced resolutions in the House of Representatives and the Senate to authorize the memorial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The text of the bill can be <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c112:H.CON.RES.12:\">seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three monuments stand on Arlington National Cemetery&#8217;s Chaplains Hill\u00a0(text). The oldest, standing in the center and installed in 1926, memorializes by name the 23 Chaplains who lost their lives in &#8220;the World War.&#8221; To its left, the second monument, installed in 1989, memorializes by name the Catholic Chaplains who lost their lives in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. The [&#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":[1490,5284,1491,39,89,2,10,90,503,123],"class_list":["post-9644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-arlington","tag-chaplain","tag-chaplains-hill","tag-jewish","tag-korea","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-vietnam","tag-world-war-1","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644","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=9644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}