COCOA — More than 500 people crowded into the Simpkins Fine Arts Building at Brevard Community College tonight to hear FLORIDA TODAY “Spirituality” columnist Norris Burkes talk about his experience as a chaplain in Iraq.
There were so many people, chairs had to be brought onto the stage. Some people sat at the back of the auditorium and others watched on closed circuit television in the auditorium lobby.
The emotional one-hour 15-minute presentation of his experiences was accented by applause, laughter and tears. Burkes, currently a chaplain for the Army National Guard, said he wanted to volunteer to go to Iraq because he “felt God had something else for me.”
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