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By Admin 15 February 2012. Filed in News & Commentary.
0The granite monument recognizes Four Chaplains of different faiths who gave up their lives to save others during the sinking of the USAT Dorchester during World II. Heaton was aboard the ship and witnessed the chaplains’ heroic actions as the ship sank into the icy Atlantic after being struck by a German torpedo.
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By Admin 14 December 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.
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“I do notice when I’m stressing out that I start having dreams about what I saw and how I felt,” says Moss, now 40 and retired from the Army. “It does come back as if to haunt you.”
By Admin 12 December 2011. Filed in History.
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One of Abraham Lincoln’s private secretaries told Fischel that there was little chance of a meeting. But the rabbi was persistent, taking his place among hundreds of people hoping to see the president, some of whom had been waiting for three days. To Fischel’s surprise, Lincoln immediately received him with “marked courtesy.” The rabbi stated the reason for his visit: On behalf of the American Jewish community, including several thousand soldiers fighting for the Union, he hoped the president might reconsider a discriminatory law forbidding his people to serve as chaplains.
It was a controversial proposition, and one that had its roots in the very onset of the war. Five months earlier, Lincoln had called a special session of Congress and requested a $400,000,000 budget to fight the Confederacy, a portion of which provided for the inclusion of chaplains in the Volunteer Army. The ink had barely dried on the proposed draft when Representative Clement Vallandigham, a non-Jew, objected to its wording — that a chaplain be a “regularly ordained clergyman of some Christian denomination.”
By Admin 5 August 2011. Filed in History.
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The 130th Pennsylvania was primarily raised in Cumberland and York counties (companies B, C, I, and K came from York County) in August 1862 under the command of Col. Henry I. Zinn of Cumberland County, with York’s Levi Maish as lieutenant colonel. Brigaded with the 108th New York and 14th Connecticut (equally raw recruits).
With nearly 1,000 men in the ranks initially, the chaplain of the 130th had his work cut out as he ministered to the young men, many of which were going away from home for the first time. Some would never return.
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This helps us in our current age understand that at certain times war is necessary to defeat evil; or in self defense. While often it is hard to tell throughout history whether a war was just or not, in the end it is truly left to the judgment of God.
However, regardless Catholic chaplains have served throughout history on the battlefield to serve those who have fought wars whether from a sense of duty, or simply being caught up in the times and circumstances.
By Admin 4 June 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.
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“Miracles and Moments of Grace” was published this May by Christian publisher Leafwood.
Kennedy used her experience as a journalist to put together the short, tightly edited narratives, told in the first person. The stories are mostly based on interviews with chaplains, with a few edited from written accounts of service in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Vietnam and peacetime.
Hopewell Borough resident Kennedy worked as a journalist for 20 years, writing freelance articles for the New York Times as well as local publications, and producing news for the Wall Street Journal financial news database, one of the world’s first electronic news organizations. When she had a child three years ago, she began looking for a job with a more flexible schedule, and she had the idea to write a book.
By Admin 4 June 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.
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“He is such a great guy,” Spahlinger said. “He is the most caring person I’ve ever met.”
Stroop, who has served as installation chaplain since June 2009, was honored for his service as an Army chaplain at a retirement ceremony May 18 at the Courses Clubhouse.
The chaplain, who will move to South Carolina with his wife, Dawn, officially retires from active duty Aug. 31. Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Sid Taylor will assume duties as installation chaplain on June 22.
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