The cover story of the next issue of National Review will be on military chaplains. We send the issue to the printer today, so a response I received from Cmdr. Mitchell Schranz, a Jewish chaplain in the Marine Corps stationed in Okinawa, came too late for the article. But you should know why he chose to serve God as a military chaplain:

I felt a debt to America. Much of my family would have perished in the Holocaust, and I never would have been born, if not for the United States Armed Forces. When I became a rabbi I thought that being a military Chaplain was an important, valid ministry for any clergyperson, but in my case the added bonus would be that it was a way of giving back to America for what it had done for my family and countless others when it freed the world from Nazi evil.