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Associate Pastor Bill Graham is very familiar with suicide in the military, and just recently, he saw an example of intervention that helped a soldier “on the brink of making a bad choice.” Graham, a retired Army chaplain of 25 years, is an associate pastor of missions and ministries at First Baptist Church in downtown [...]

Sixty-seven days after brain surgery, Staff Sgt. Dave Love was out on the Potomac, fishing for bass on a beautiful afternoon. He and more than 90 other wounded warriors participated in the Army vs. Marines Spring Bass Challenge yesterday at Smallwood State Park in Marbury. The event was a welcome change of scene for men [...]

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Regular duties are suspended for three days at Fort Campbell, which leads the Army in suicides this year, so commanders can identify and help soldiers who are struggling with the stress of war and most at risk for killing themselves. The post began a stand-down Wednesday so soldiers can focus on [...]

In the D.C. area, as across the nation, a small cadre of women help one another mourn the loss of a deceased spouse. Nancy Jackson, coordinator for the widow-to-widow network, part of the Army Community Service’s Survivors Outreach Program, has six “callers” who help her contact the newly bereaved affiliated with the Army in Northern [...]

On Memorial Day, we recall with reverence the courage and sacrifice of our forbearers and honor those now in harm’s way. What follows is the true story of four men whose “last full measure of devotion” to God and country should never be forgotten. Two days out of St. Johns, Newfoundland, fog, sleet and the [...]

TUCSON, Ariz. – Chaplain Joshua Ingertson has been protecting his country for nearly half his life – first as a soldier, then as a Border Patrol agent and now also as a chaplain. He has a profound sense of duty to his country and an equally abiding faith. And working as a patrol agent along [...]

(CNN) — Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday. The unsolicited Bibles sent by a church in the United States were confiscated about a year ago [...]

BANGOR – As a chaplain in the US Army’s First Cavalry Division, Captain Edward Tolliver just spent nearly a year in Iraq as the guy to whom soldiers came for advice, comfort, or just a welcome face. But on a recent May evening in Bangor International Airport, Tolliver was the one receiving the comforting embrace. [...]