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Freedom From Religion

By 14 February 2012. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Freedom From Religion - Opinion - PatriotPost.US

Freedom From Religion – Opinion – PatriotPost.UShttp://patriotpost.us/opinion/oliver-north/2012/02/10/freedom-from-religion/WASHINGTON — “We don’t need you, so shut up!” That’s the message the Obama administration has sent loud and clear to America’s Roman Catholics. And it’s a message now being sent to U.S. military chaplains — to the detriment of our armed forces.

During World War II, the War Department and the Department of the Navy urged — the operative word is “urged,” not “ordered,” mind you — U.S. military chaplains to encourage soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen and Marines that God was on our side in the global battle against fascists, Nazis and the godless heathens running rampant across Asia and the Pacific. The hymns “Onward, Christian Soldiers” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” were sung with fervor at chapel services regardless of denomination.

Roger That: Chaplain from Elmira writes about post-9/11 experiences

By 29 January 2012. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Roger That: Chaplain from Elmira writes about post-9/11 experiences | Star-Gazette | stargazette.com

Roger That: Chaplain from Elmira writes about post-9/11 experiences | Star-Gazette | stargazette.comhttp://www.stargazette.com/article/20120126/NEWS01/201260373/Roger-Chaplain-from-Elmira-writes-about-post-9-11-experiences?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGEThe idea for “The Shadow of Death” began forming soon after the attacks of 9/11.The Rev. Patrick Holder of Elmira, who was the chaplain for a National Guard unit based near New York City, was sent to Ground Zero the day after the attacks and then made every-other-evening trips into the city over the next six months to visit with military people who were assigned there.

12 Heroic U.S. Military Chaplains

By 10 January 2012. Filed in History.

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12 Heroic U.S. Military Chaplains - Mental Floss

12 Heroic U.S. Military Chaplains – Mental Flosshttp://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/112976After I posted 8 Heroic U.S. Military Chaplains last week, we heard from a Catholic writer, a chaplain who worked under Father Sampson (who was featured), and the pastor of the home church of one of the Four Chaplains, in comments and email. We appreciate everyone’s input! Military chaplains are classified as non-combatants, but they still put their lives on the line to serve their country and its military members—and often civilians and enemy soldiers, too. Many went above and beyond the call of duty, and their stories should be remembered.

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8 Heroic U.S. Military Chaplains

By 5 January 2012. Filed in History.

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8 Heroic U.S. Military Chaplains - Mental Floss

8 Heroic U.S. Military Chaplains – Mental Flosshttp://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/112386Some contemporaries wrote of the Mexican-American War as one of U.S. Protestants against Mexican Catholics. President Polk responded to such allegations by appointing two Catholic priests to serve as military chaplains. Father Anthony Rey, a Jesuit from Georgetown University with no military background or training, participated in the battle of Monterrey in September of 1846. He tended to the wounded on the battlefield and gave last rites to the dying. Afterward, serving in north Mexico, he ventured out of the U.S. garrison to minister to the locals, despite warnings of the danger. In 1847 he said a mass at the village of Ceralvo, and never made it back. His body was found a few days later, stabbed through by lances. He was mourned by both the U.S. troops and the Mexicans he served.

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Veterans bring the war home

By 27 December 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Veterans bring the war home – Sacramento Living – Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | Sacramento Beehttp://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/25/4145020/veterans-bring-the-war-home.htmlCHICAGO — It was just after midnight when former Marine Cpl. James Dahan was awakened by a faint noise in the distance.

Except for the glare of his flashlight, there was darkness all around as he crept from room to room, searching for an unknown enemy.

Windows sealed: check. Doors locked: check. Building secure: check.

Yet with people pacing about upstairs, voices he did not recognize billowing through the walls and the incessant roar of traffic outside, he dared not fall asleep. So he stayed up all night repeating the routine over and over again.

Dahan returned from Iraq seven years ago. But the horrors of war followed him home.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/25/4145020/veterans-bring-the-war-home.html#storylink=cpy

Retired chaplain says veterans of Iraq war may grapple with ‘moral injury’

By 18 December 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Retired chaplain says veterans of Iraq war may grapple with 'moral injury' | MLive.com

Retired chaplain says veterans of Iraq war may grapple with ‘moral injury’ | MLive.comhttp://www.mlive.com/living/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/12/retired_chaplain_says_veterans.htmlGRAND RAPIDS — With the war in Iraq due to draw to a close by the end of the year, the Rev. Herman Keizer Jr. predicts many U.S. troops returning home for the holidays will grapple with a dilemma that is surfacing with increasing frequency. It’s called “moral injury.”

“What we’ve got coming back are huge numbers of people who fought in a morally ambiguous war,” said Keizer, 73, a retired U.S. Army chaplain and former director the Christian Reformed Church’s chaplaincy ministries who lives in Caledonia.

“They’re going to come home with an idealized idea of the holidays and they’ll realize after they’ve come back, they’re alone. No one really understands.”

Soldier’s sacrifice leads chaplain back to Army service

By 11 November 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Soldier's sacrifice leads chaplain back to Army service | Article | The United States Army

Soldier’s sacrifice leads chaplain back to Army service | Article | The United States Armyhttp://www.army.mil/article/68990/Soldier_s_sacrifice_leads_chaplain_back_to_Army_service/After about eight years as a medic in the Army Reserves, Todd Cheney traded his Battle Dress Uniform for a minister’s robe in 1997.

Cheney joined the Army in September 1989 with a friend, hoping to get some help paying for college.

“We were bored and not going anywhere, so we thought, ‘Let’s do something worthwhile,’” Cheney said.

Throughout his time in the U.S. Army Reserve, Cheney served within the ministry. He taught a bible study, worked with the youth ministry, and held various other positions. But in 1995, he committed wholeheartedly to the church.

New memorial honors valor of Jewish chaplains

By 21 October 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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New memorial honors valor of Jewish chaplains - Washington Times

New memorial honors valor of Jewish chaplains – Washington Timeshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/20/new-memorial-honors-valor-of-jewish-chaplains/On a bitter winter night in 1943, four Army chaplains stood on the deck of the torpedoed and foundering USAT Dorchester while hundreds of American soldiers around them prepared to slip into the icy depths of the North Atlantic.

After they removed their life jackets and gave them to others, sealing their fates aboard the doomed Army transport vessel, the men – one Catholic, two Protestant and one Jewish – were last seen with their heads bowed in prayer, offering spiritual comfort to the terrified soldiers.

The story of the four chaplains’ sacrifice is not a new one for military history buffs, but the men represent a segment of combat veterans whose sacrifices, some say, have been underrecognized.

Profiles in Courage: Military Chaplains

By 1 October 2011. Filed in Chaplain Candidates, Deployment, History, News & Commentary.

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Profiles in Courage: Military Chaplains | Daily News | NCRegister.com

Profiles in Courage: Military Chaplains | Daily News | NCRegister.comhttp://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/profiles-in-courage/WASHINGTON — The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA reported a sharp jump this year in the number of seminarians interested in serving as military chaplains. As the 2011-2012 academic year begins, there are 31 military-affiliated seminarians nationwide, up from three just three years ago.

The seminarians are participating in the Chaplain Candidacy Program for one of the branches of the armed forces and must be co-sponsored by a diocesan bishop. Once ordained, the priest must serve three years in a civilian parish and return to his diocese of sponsorship when he retires from active military service.

Conventual Father Kerry Abbott, director for vocations for the archdiocese, remarked, “This is one of the untold stories of the blessings of the Holy Spirit upon the Church and those faithful fervently seeking to respond to the voice of God.”

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Healing inner wounds is priority for new head chaplain

By 29 June 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Healing inner wounds is priority for new head chaplain - News - Progress-Index

Healing inner wounds is priority for new head chaplain – News – Progress-Indexhttp://progress-index.com/news/healing-inner-wounds-is-priority-for-new-head-chaplain-1.1167595#axzz1QdH8GAbqFORT LEE – Jumping out of an airplane or rappelling down a rope from a helicopter may be a sort of “leap of faith” for everyone who does it, but in Col. James White’s case it’s literally true. The new head chaplain at Fort Lee has spent his 26 years in the Army “doing what the soldiers do” as part of following the call to help those who wage war find inner peace.

White arrives at the local Army base at a good time to make a big impact on a lot of people’s lives. With Fort Lee’s expanded role in training the nation’s soldiers, he noted, “One-third of the Army passes through this post. We have the ability to touch one-third of the Army with our religious suppport and let them at least think about their spiritual life.”

The staff reporting to the command/garrison chaplain, who heads up the post’s Religious Support Office (RSO), has grown with Fort Lee and currently includes 17 chaplains, 19 chaplain assistants and seven staffers, a total of 43 employees. And it has a big, bright new facility at its disposal, Liberty Chapel in Building 9100 on C Avenue.

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