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The Army is my chosen profession, and I have dedicated almost two decades of my life in service to our great nation.
Now I can happily say that I also serve God. Army life is challenging, and we tend to be deployed to locations worldwide where a majority of people would never want to be. Some would think that being in combat, with its destruction of lives and property, would pull us away from God, but for me the opposite is true—it has made me much closer.
On my second deployment to Iraq in as many years, I was blessed to be assigned to a unit that has an outstanding chaplain. Before the deployment, my wife and I got to know him and quickly realized that God had blessed us with this priest. Usually Catholic priests in Iraq were rare, and combat operations precluded attending Mass on any kind of a regular basis. This deployment was blessedly different.
Daily Mass. In…
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