{"id":38,"date":"2005-12-08T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2005-12-09T06:20:12","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T11:20:12","slug":"the-difficulty-of-military-honor-in-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/08\/the-difficulty-of-military-honor-in-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difficulty of Military Honor in War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-colonel27nov27,0,6096413,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">A Journey That Ended in Anguish<\/a> is a sad article in the LA Times about the supposed suicide of a military ethicist in Iraq last June. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll let you visit the link to read the story rather than summarize it in a way that some would be bound to condider biased.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve pointed out in some of my previous writings just how ethically difficult and stressful being in a modern superpower\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s military can potentially be to Pagans concerned with issues of honor and ethics. Army Col. Ted Westhusing was apparently a deeply moral Christian who had written his PhD dissertation on military honor and the ethics of war.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible that he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t commit suicide, but instead was murdered by the civilian contractors he was supervising, but the official position of the Army is that he killed himself over his philosophical &#8220;rigidity.&#8221; Either way, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a disturbing story that demands deeper investigation.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Journey That Ended in Anguish is a sad article in the LA Times about the supposed suicide of a military ethicist in Iraq last June. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll let you visit the link to read the story rather than summarize it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/08\/the-difficulty-of-military-honor-in-war\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-pagan-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}