Why Thor's Hammer is on military headstones

[montrealfilmguy]

From Boingboing.com

 

Mjölnir is a weapon of honor and virtue, and a fitting symbol for any noble warrior. So it’s appropriate that American soldiers can now request the symbol for Thor’s Hammer be placed on their headstone if they die in the line of duty. But Mjölnir’s path toward becoming an acceptable headstone option wasn’t easy. It practically took the power of Thor to get it there.

 

 

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672968/how-thors-hammer-made-its-way-onto-soldiers-headstones

[Dr. Balls]

Interesting article. The article doesn't touch on the fringe German Paganism/White Supremecist relationship to Odinism, which might have been an underlying issue to why there was resistance to the recognition of Thor's Hammer on headstones by the government. Very cool that is has been adapted!

[miraclemet]

Super cool article. Thanks for sharing it.

 

[valiantman]

Here's the government site with all the emblems:

http://www.cem.va.gov/hmm/emblems.asp

 

Thor is 55.

 

Infinity is 49.

 

45 is "Kohen Hands", but it looks like "Live Long and Prosper"

 

 

[Jiminy_Cricket-migration]

The new rules stated that as long as a soldier filled out the proper paperwork and the symbol they wanted was linked with an existing religious community, a soldier could have any emblem they wanted on their tombstone. "You can’t just put, say, a Metallica logo on your headstone, but otherwise, the VA shifted the onus off of themselves in deciding what is or isn’t an 'appropriate’ religion."

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That's total wildly_fanciful_statement!

[valiantman]

The new rules stated that as long as a soldier filled out the proper paperwork and the symbol they wanted was linked with an existing religious community, a soldier could have any emblem they wanted on their tombstone. "You can’t just put, say, a Metallica logo on your headstone, but otherwise, the VA shifted the onus off of themselves in deciding what is or isn’t an 'appropriate’ religion."

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That's total wildly_fanciful_statement!

Just go with emblem 1 - Latin cross - and it's the Master of Puppets album cover.

[Tomega]

USLIM (Islamic 5 Pointed Star) Not shown because of copyrights.

 

B.S.

[shadroch]

USLIM (Islamic 5 Pointed Star) Not shown because of copyrights.

 

B.S.

 

I don't get that ,either. I've never seen a five pointed star associated with Islam either. An eight pointed star, but not a five pointed. Westerners often confuse the Crescent Moon as a symbol of Islam when it actually was the Coat of Arms for the Ottomans.