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"American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines love their chaplains. Sometimes they serve as vital links to home, family, and faith; other times, the chaplain buries them after death in battle, at sea, or in a prison camp. Chaplains serve as sounding boards when life goes sour and join celebrations when life goes well. The chaplain is present for them at all times, in all places, in all circumstances. This is the story of the chaplains' mission and tradition in the American armed services, stories of individual chaplains who did their duty to God and to their country"--

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"American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines love their chaplains. Sometimes they serve as vital links to home, family, and faith; other times, the chaplain buries them after death in battle, at sea, or in a prison camp. Chaplains serve as sounding boards when life goes sour and join celebrations when life goes well. The chaplain is present for them at all times, in all places, in all circumstances. This is the story of the chaplains' mission and tradition in the American armed services, stories of individual chaplains who did their duty to God and to their country"--
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Autorenporträt
Born in Philadelphia in 1946, Robert C. Doyle became a Fulbright professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Germany in 1994 and later taught at the Université Strasbourg II in France for three years. He taught American History at Franciscan University of Steubenville from 2000 and retired as Professor Emeritus of History in 2022. He worked on several documentary projects and also provided research consultancy for the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (USAF). He is the author of several books on prisoners of war, including, A Prisoner's Duty: Great Escapes in Military History, 1997.