Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1948 — Page 2

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Rev. Vichuras Reminisces On Army Chaplain Life 0

• At , amp many of the men were, indifferent to their religious obit-1 gat ion*. hut when you ge> on that • gulp going toward th® fighting. and the neatest land if two mile* | straight down the chaplain gets to he a pretty popular fellow Sunday wax the IT.trd anniversary <>f the army corps of chaplains, and the Rev Ignatfu* Vichnra*. assist ant pastor of St Mary s Catholic church, settled ba- k In an easy chair at the rectory to reminisce about hi* 12 month* in the service Ke. Vhhtiraa side by snl> with; the men whose spiritual advlso lie was. saw the exotic orient through the mu k and monsoons ami mosquitoes lie traveled to. Australia New Guinea, the A-lmlr allies I.uzoii, and .1 a pan Armed only with a Gl Billie and faith in God Rev Mithuns ami s uimi other armv chaplains had a variety ot ta-ks <nd espon*r*ilt ties I: a min i -ia itu d .me-tp trou he should io give: a have 'lf i • iv ilian ;rou|> Is i'i'ing ■■ part, for ( So G! s. win s t.> hoos- 'he u kv lien ' I: a ofll. -r is inhuman *-i sad.sti m his treatment "I his men. who •to u ’er.rlK I o of I fleer with the tiny ,* ,4 • r* ss on his lapel.

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World Wai II -aw the develop i inriii of a •** liool for chaplains, ami • its signifi* am e should not I’* un- . .lereatfmated. according to Rev I Vl* hums At school, chaplain* of all faiths a* re g ven the lowdown on military life and taetlcs. to appre* late more fully what their comrades ha*! to face "Putting it briefly. Rev Vichurlas said, the chaplain's Job was to I I k* ep Gl morale as high as < ondl Gons would permit both ndiv l idually ami as a unit Among the emlnder* of war I which Rev Vii huras will never ! forget was seeing \m*- an prison-i i ers of war on a hospital ship ini • Tokyo bay on VI day plus one "They could barely walk. he| >ai*l They were literally flesh ami , I bones their eves sunken. tht*r ■o.li. s utterly broken Ye: living unde trdplcal condi ! 1 tions was sometimes worse than the fighting Rev Vlnna- point' d , lit He A ill alw av - emem <-i the -1.-m h and the tilth an I the inse. fs -o < haracteristii ot the p..»■••» he : v it* d \ . .i ip*-l over * as may be a '•■nt- ( **r a quonset hut. R>-v. Vi* huras ( -aid and sometimes it s under the -kv In the Philippines he stated I*., al bun bes were is**d predomin I an'lv s.n e t.,* great, part of t He-1 lia'l e popula'io has been <-*n .eited to Catholicism Semi-per-i

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manent chapels were built on many of the hitherto abandoned islands In almost four years as a chapla n 1 nevei came across anyone from home. Rev Vi< huras recalled That is. until we were four da s out no the boat going home. That was the first time and when you think of all the Gls I met Life in the chaplain * corps is Just a memory now to the St. Mary * < hurch assistant pastor But he Is proud to be a veteran of a branch of service just a few day*

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younger than the United States army itself Over 500 Attend Annual Singfest A * rowd of more than s<wv per 1 xoiik attended the annual xingfest. sponsored by the Victory Prayer band and presided over by the Rev James Meadows of Decatur, held Sunday at Huntington Families from Marion. Anderson Fort Wayne. Huntington. Deratur and many other communitfea join- ( t

ed in an afternoon of prayer and einzing It was one of the la -'••s religious turnout* in Hunting *■ this year SILVERY BLOB * jT’ligmetir of their imauinationTiiev said they jrassed the ship within 7i>" feet and got aboul a 15 second glimpse of it They dr scrib.-d it as .1 wingle** affar . four times the c rciimf'-r.-n’ r ot a B -J fuselage, and let propelled It had 1 two rows of windows w 11* a| *a: , ed to be lighted from the inside In Indiana Indianapolis. July 2'l *ll' Several Indianapolis 1. id»-n - | day puzzled over

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