"Catholic Military Chaplains: America’s Forgotten Heroes" Topic

""War is Hell" General William Tecumseh Sherman once noted. Indeed there is nothing to celebrate about warfare; however unfortunately it has been present with mankind in his fallen nature since departing from the Garden of Eden. War was a common affair throughout the Old Testament.

Saint Augustine understood the sometimes unfortunate necessity of war and as a result outlined the "Just War" clauses to allow moral principles to still be applied. Later in more modern periods Saint Joan of Arc was called to battle by Our Lord, and in the twentieth century Our Lady noted at Fatima that war was a "punishment for sin." In other words man's own sinfulness often leads to war due to a lack of God in society…."
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All honor to these good men!

But I don't think "forgotten" is quite the right word. I once attended a mass given by a priest who spoke about having met with one of the priests who was with Father Duffy in the Fighting 69th, and my priest didn't need to explain who Father Duffy was. There was a postage stamp in honor of the Four Chaplains, and a destroyer named after Father Schmitt. And there are at least two statues of Father Corby--one at Gettysburg and one at Notre Dame--where he's known as "Fair Catch" Corby, it's true, but still known.