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Afghan war s end quiets chaplain s litany of funeral prayers

Afghan war s end quiets chaplain s litany of funeral prayers
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Afghan war s end quiets chaplain s litany of funeral prayers - The San Diego Union-Tribune

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del.  This is the place where widows wailed, where mothers buckled to the tarmac in grief and where children lifted their teddy bears to see daddy carried off in a flag-covered box. This is where presidents stood and generals saluted because this is the place where the price of the war in Afghanistan was made plain. This is the place where Chaplain David Sparks saw it all. This is the place he found his calling. “This,” the minister says, “is holy ground.” Advertisement The end of the war is sobering for those who have tended to the battle’s dead, who unzipped their body bags, dressed them in uniform one last time and clutched their bereft families.

Afghan war s end quiets chaplain s litany of funeral prayers – The Durango Herald

Afghan war s end quiets chaplain s litany of funeral prayers – The Durango Herald
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Afghan war s end quiets chaplain s litany of funeral prayers | National

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — This is the place where widows wailed, where mothers buckled to the tarmac in grief and where children lifted their teddy bears to see daddy carried off in a flag-covered box. This is where presidents stood and generals saluted because this is the place where the price of the war in Afghanistan was made plain. This is the place where Chaplain David Sparks saw it all. This is the place he found his calling. “This,” the minister says, “is holy ground.” The end of the war is sobering for those who have tended to the battle’s dead, who unzipped their body bags, dressed them in uniform one last time and clutched their bereft families.

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