Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 17, 2010

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  over 14 years ago

    Who bought the farm this time?

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    Alabama Al  over 14 years ago

    Who cares? No one I know.

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    Potrzebie  over 14 years ago

    Two things; don’t diss any war casualties. Second, the Spec-4 is the new toggle?

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    napaeric  over 14 years ago

    Loved Toggle talking to the gun nuts in the coffee shop. There is a place and I time. Sadly too many of both, rarely coffee shops in the USA

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    freeholder1  over 14 years ago

    Last rites from a female chaplain? Any Catholics tell us if that even counts?

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    freeholder1  over 14 years ago

    Toggle switch, then?

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    Justice22  over 14 years ago

    The specialist has probably been driving the Captain around for six months.

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    mksclr  over 14 years ago

    Chaplains rock, no matter what gender

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    poohbear8192  over 14 years ago

    This arc could be rough.

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    gcschramm  over 14 years ago

    The Episcopalians have female clergy and practice “Last Rites”. But it does not matter what denomination she is, as a Chaplain, if she performs Last Rites for a Catholic, it counts.

    And, yes, this could be a very rough arc.

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    RinaFarina  over 14 years ago

    However, I bet it won’t generate the kind of sour comments that the last few have done!

    I really admire this chaplain. She seems to embody the way a chaplain ought to be. I expect no satirizing of her (and I hope I don’t turn out to be wrong).

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    Piksea Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I think this chaplain is safe from satirizing. She’s clearly a voice of reason in unreasonable times and situations.

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    llong65  over 14 years ago

    chaplains are really multi-denominational. when there’s only one man of God around. he/she must know all rites.catholic.,jewish, muslim.

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    Quantumtorpedo1  over 14 years ago

    There was a scene in the movie Battleground, where a chaplain asked a Jewish soldier in the 101st Airborne how did he do when performing a Shabbat for the troops in the field.

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    blueprairie  over 14 years ago

    I get the DOD casreps, stebon. I even read them.

    Obviously another dead soldier is not even a blip on your personal radar screen.

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    poohbear8192  over 14 years ago

    I am a non-theist and I have boundless respect for chaplains.

    Except for those that proselytize and seek converts. For those I have contempt.

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    revron  over 14 years ago

    I am a chaplain and it is the most wonderful opportunity and blessing I could have. It is a real privilege to be allowed into peoples’ lives at times of deep distress. It humbles you. You come away from the encounter often having received more than you give. Of course there is that x factor: GOD. He always seems to turn up, and I am thankful for that!

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    dstufff  over 14 years ago

    My brother is a chaplain in the Canadian Air Force. It was his duty when posted in Gagetown to accompany a senior officer and his assistant when visiting a family to announce their loved one was killed overseas. He would stay behind with the family to offer moral support .

    I tell anyone who’ll listen that I just don’t have the heart or the guts to do that kind of job.

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    gimmickgenius  over 14 years ago

    Joe, you wouldn’t believe the cussing and filthy language the chaplains use when only staff is in the building.

    From Chaplains…? What do you think they are… Human?!?

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