In a few days we will observe Memorial Day, mourning the loss — and celebrating the lives — of Americans in uniform from the Minute Men of Lexington and Concord to the present day. For some this means planting flags in local veterans cemeteries, for others recollection of departed friends, comrades or loved ones. For all, it is a time to reflect on how blessed our land has been by generation after generation of young patriots who gave what Abraham Lincoln called the “last full measure” of their devotion.
I was reminded of this recently when several friends recommended a modest volume of annotated letters from a little-known chaplain in World War II. “Chaplain” is the story, most of it told in his own words, of Army Chaplain Paschal Dupuy Fowlkes, a young Episcopal minister in Northern Virginia.
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