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How can we understand the impulse to sacrifice so much in times of great need?
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 In remembering the legacy of four World War II chaplains — Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish — who went down together with their torpedoed ship in 1943, we speak with David Fox, nephew of one of the chaplains. We also hear interviews with surviving veterans and veterans of the German ship that torpedoed them. Finally, a conversation with author, poet, and Vietnam War veteran Bruce Weigl. His most recent book, The Circle of Hahn, chronicles the long personal journey he has made back to Vietnam and to the adoption of a beloved Vietnamese child. The paradox of his life as a writer, he says, is that the war ruined his life and gave him his voice.
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Accepting the Need to Give One's Life (May 31, 2004)
Thank you for this program. Hearing the voices of those combat veterans, hearing their acceptance that if their time came, so be it, reached the ultimate fear and test of courage that is in my soul, and I imagine in a lot of people's souls.
I can't help contrasting the honesty and generosity of those men, and of the clergymen who gave their lifejackets and lives, with the motivations of some of our current masters of war and princes of the cloth.
Paul Simons
Levittown, PA (WHYY 91.0 FM) |
