Notable Quotable: Tom Paine on discovering one’s hidden inner chaplain
I’m currently reading American author Tom Paine’s comic novel from 2003, The Pearl of Kuwait, about some US marines who go AWOL to rescue a beautiful princess after Saddam Hussein […]
A WW2 Chaplain Passes
There can’t be many military chaplains of this vintage left. My brother the Mad Colonel sent me this link to a British obit for Brigadier the Reverend David Whiteford, a […]
A German Chaplain on the Russian Front
I’m always drawn to annecdotes in military history about the work of chaplains. This short and tantalizing story is found in Panzer Commander, the memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck, […]