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CHAPLAIN'S LETTERS: MINISTRY BY "HUEY" 1964-1965 is the first hand account of an Army Chaplain's ministry in the early years of our country's involvement in Vietnam. His wife saved his letters & he recently edited them into this story that gives the reader not only a sense of a chaplain's daily life, but also a feel for the problems, frustrations & dangers the American advisers were up against. The letters are written to bring the reader into the action. You feel as if the letters are written to you, & that you are experiencing what he experienced. By jeep, by HUIB ("Huey") chopper, by L-19 observation plane as well as by hitching rides with the South Vietnamese Air Force, the author served the American advisory teams attached to the Vietnamese Army as a circuit-riding pastor. He ministered to our men in eleven provinces north of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), from the Cambodian border to the South China Sea. CHAPLAIN'S LETTERS demonstrates how Armed Forces Chaplains minister in counterinsurgency warfare, & it also introduces the reader to many of the men with whom the author served, some of whom were killed in the line of duty.Kettler, Earl C. is the author of 'Chaplain's Letters Ministry by "Huey" 1964-1965, the Personal Correspondence of an Army Chaplain from Vietnam' with ISBN 9780963921307 and ISBN 0963921304.
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