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The homecoming everyone photographed lasted a day. The one nobody warned you about lasts for years. The uniform comes off, the structure falls away, and the people around you expect you to pick up civilian life like a set of keys you left on the counter. Some days that works. Other days the distance...
The coffee urn at the veterans hall has been empty for an hour, but the man at the corner table has not moved. He came home from his last deployment nine years ago, and in most ways he is fine: a job, a mortgage, kids who know him. But tonight is the anniversary of the day his convoy was hit, and th...
A deployed unit does not get to choose whether it needs a chaplain. The need arrives with the deployment: the service member processing news from home, the unit absorbing a loss downrange, the return home that looks nothing like anyone pictured. Military chaplaincy formation is what determines wheth...
