Crisis of spirit
From the San Diego Union-Tribune:
Like thousands of others this Veterans Day weekend, the 61-year-old San Diegan struggles with memories of what he saw while he was away at war, struggles with what was lost.
Eighteen men and women he served alongside during a year-long deployment to Iraq were killed. Dozens of others were injured.
It was his time-honored job — Army chaplains have been around since the Revolutionary War — to lead memorial services for the slain, offer encouragement to the wounded, counsel those who doubted the presence of a holy spirit in a place filled with hatred and violence.
But who comforts the comforters?