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‘Three Chaplains’ takes hard look at US military experience of Muslims
'I’m hoping that the film will provide a means to initiate conversations that haven’t been had before.'
By Sarah Sicard
Stop the ‘knee-jerk’ reactions to ‘anti-religion activists,’ 20 congressmen tell senior DoD leaders
Lawmakers asked the Pentagon to stop appeasing “anti-religion activists," citing recent complaints made by an advocacy group amid the coronavirus pandemic
By Kyle Rempfer
Military chaplains pivot to serve soldiers in virus outbreak
Military chaplains get creative to make connections while pandemic forces people apart.
How one organization is working to correct cases of Jewish WWII soldiers mistakenly buried under Latin Cross headstones
“It is very important for us for a soldier who lived and died as an American be acknowledged for posterity as an American. It is also equally important for us that a soldier who lived and died as a Jew, be recognized as a Jew.”
By Dylan Gresik
German city to honor WWII airmen executed after surviving B-17 crash
Joseph Prokop, then 22, survived the downing of the bomber only to be captured by the Germans and summarily executed after a Gestapo officer learned one of his crewmates was Jewish.
By David Singleton, The (Scranton, Pa.) Times-Tribune via the AP
Space Force Bible blessing spurs protest
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation objected to the ceremony as inappropriate and sectarian.
Airman becomes the service’s first female Muslim chaplain candidate
“This is a big day not just for Muslims, but for persons of all faiths,” the Air Force chief of chaplains said.
How the US military embraced America’s religious diversity
In 1917, when the United States entered World War I, the chaplaincy was a majority white and fully Christian organization. That changed.
By Ronit Y. Stahl, University of California, Berkeley
These Medal of Honor recipients were men of God
Both priests lived and died for the grunts they loved.
By Ray Pezzoli Jr., Vietnam Magazine
Green Beret legend, Holocaust survivor, Vietnam veteran and retired two-star dies
Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow was a survivor of the Holocaust, veteran of the Vietnam War, and one of the top Army officers in Berlin during the Cold War.
By Kyle Rempfer