Chapman, Robert
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There come times during a chaplain’s stay at a post when he must go to headquarters and have a conference with the supervising chaplain of the area. Such consultations give the supervising chaplain an opportunity to see how his chaplains are coming along and to offer suggestions and help to them in the conduct of their work. After I had been at Pinedale for more than a year, the time came for me to make one of these pilgrimages to San Francisco to have a chat with the chief. Off I went one bright…- 46.9 K • Completed
- During the course of an ordinary day a chaplain is called upon to render assistance in the solution of many varied and unusual problems. The book says that the chaplain is responsible for the religious and moral welfare of all personnel. When you get to thinking about it, that can mean just about anything you want it to mean. For instance, if a soldier doesn’t get the promotion he has worked so hard for and feels that he is entitled to, he may become discouraged. This discouragement may lead him to adopt…
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- A few days after I had arrived at Camp Pinedale and had become accustomed to seeing tar-paper buildings before my eyes all the time, I decided to take a walk around the camp to see if anything interesting was going on. I walked down one of the dust lanes, known as a “street” only because a sign at its end so designated it. I had not gone very far before I came upon the familiar scene of a sergeant giving a private a very thorough going-over. When I got within earshot I heard something like this (parts…
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- When I knocked at the door marked Staff Chaplain, a voice from the inside called out, “Come in.” I opened the door and beheld a dried-up little Army officer sitting behind a very large desk. The first thing I saw was his bald head. When my eyes grew accustomed to the glare I noticed that he was wearing a colonel’s insignia. That almost took the starch out of my collar. I had seen colonels before. As a matter of fact, I had even been on the same elevator with one once. But this was the first time that…
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- There are some nine or ten million young men in the United States today who will argue the point with me; nevertheless, I insist that getting into the Army was a hard job. It may have come easy to some, but I worked at the assignment for nearly three years before I finally succeeded in getting them to take me in. It all started back in 1940, just a few months after Hitler had started the fireworks in Europe. At that time I was in my freshman year in seminary and had attained the ripe age of twenty-one . .…
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