November 11, 2014: Veterans Day 2014: The Role of Military Chaplains
On November 11, we remember those men and women
who have served the United States in time of war and peace. According to the
U.S.C.C.B, The annual observance of Veterans Day in the United States has it
roots in the armistice that ended World War I hostilities in 1918. The
armistice between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the
eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. President
Woodrow Wilson proclaimed thereafter that November 11 be observed as
"Armistice Day." In 1954, Congress passed legislation that
renamed the federal holiday "Veterans Day," in recognition of the
service of veterans of all U.S. Wars. Stateside or abroad, military chaplains
play an important role in the life of many servicemen and women. On this
Veterans Day, you are invited to watch a CatholicTV interview with Father Paul
Hurley, an Army Chaplain stationed in Afghanistan.