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...hole, all curled up. I guess the round just dropped in on top of him." Afterwards, he and the rest of the squad had to decide what to do with the last letter the man had written before the round dropped in on him. "Send it home." said the chaplain, "his Mom will want to know what he was thinking before he died...
There are seven of us Presbyterian missionaries in this station who are ex-servicemen, but if Chaplain Ivan Bennett thinks the "new look among G.I.s . . . is a spiritual...
...chair. As he walked through the glaring light of Sing Sing's white-walled death chamber, the three newsmen allowed as witnesses noted that his mustache had been shaved off, that he wore a white T shirt, and that his feet were shod in cloth slippers. The prison chaplain, R^bbi Irving Koslowe, intoned the 23rd Psalm: "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want . . ." Just before the chair, Julius seemed to sway. Guards quickly placed and strapped him in the seat, then dropped the leather hood over his face. Three shocks of 2,000 volts each flung...
There is a new look among G.I.s, and it is a spiritual one. The man who has reached this conclusion ought to know; he is Major General Ivan L. Bennett, the Army's Chief of Chaplains. Speaking to the Little Rock, Ark. Rotary Club, Chaplain Bennett, a Southern Baptist, said flatly that never in his Army experience had fighting men "responded so freely to the things the churches have taught through the years...
...symptom of the "awakened interest" in religion, said Bennett, is the attendance at religious services. Each chaplain in Korea has an average of 1,500 men a month at services, an average which compares favorably with a clergyman's listeners back home. Equally significant, General Bennett believes, is the record of G.I. generosity and compassion. Examples...