{"id":19823,"date":"2024-03-29T14:18:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=thornton-steven-william"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:12:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T02:12:56","slug":"thornton-steven-william","status":"publish","type":"casualty","link":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=thornton-steven-william","title":{"rendered":"Thornton, Steven William"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: 4\/18\/2005<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rank<\/strong>: Major<\/p>\n<p><strong>Branch<\/strong>: U.S. Army<\/p>\n<p><strong>Operation<\/strong>: Operation Iraqi Freedom<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"292\" data-id=\"25678\" src=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MAJ-Steven-Thornton.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25678\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A father of three and grandfather of five, Steven Thornton had been an Army chaplain for more than 20 years. &#8220;He loved being a chaplain. He loved counseling soldiers,&#8221; said his wife, Brenda.Thornton, 46, a native of Eugene, Ore., died April 18, 2005 after collapsing during a training run at Camp Arifjan. Thornton and his wife grew up in Springfield, Ore., and met at the Church of the Nazarene there in 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were married that November. Thornton held a bachelor&#8217;s degree in religious theology from Mid-America Nazarene College in Olathe, Kan., and a master of divinity degree in religious theology from Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo. His military career took his family to many states, including Washington,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Idaho, Colorado, Kansas and Hawaii. He was stationed at Fort Monmouth and previously served a year each in Iraq and South Korea. &#8220;He was a wonderful husband and a wonderful father,&#8221; Brenda Thornton said. &#8220;He was really proud of his kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"casualty-operation":[100],"casualty-tag":[106],"class_list":["post-19823","casualty","type-casualty","status-publish","hentry","casualty-operation-operation-iraqi-freedom","casualty-tag-idaho-casualty"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/19823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/casualty"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/19823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25680,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/19823\/revisions\/25680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"casualty-operation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-operation&post=19823"},{"taxonomy":"casualty-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-tag&post=19823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}