Bringing God to Men: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War

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287 index Abercrombie, Clarence, 81, 199 Abrams, Creighton, 46, 47, 64, 242 (n. 15) Ackermann, Henry, 70, 91, 168, 170, 173, 188, 193 ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union Afghanistan, 101, 183, 222, 228, 229–30 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 245 (n. 90) African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 50, 245 (n. 90) Aircraft carriers, chaplains serving on, 48, 57, 212 Air Force, U.S., 129, 162, 205, 210; duties of chaplains, 1, 63–65; historical records of, 13, 63, 77, 129, 167–68; deployment of chaplains, 40, 44, 55; directives on chaplains, 159, 202, 207, 218–20; demographics of, 211, 215 Air Force Academy, U.S., 217–18 Air Force Chaplain School, 210, 239 (n. 47) Air Force chief of chaplains, 13, 207, 208, 215 Albert, John F., 129 Alcohol use, 15, 18, 65, 70, 71, 88, 90, 91, 94–95, 189, 210 All-volunteer force (AVF), 208, 210, 211 “Amazing Grace” (song), 121 American Baptist Convention, 156–57, 242 (n. 21) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 199–200, 201 American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 83–84 American Jewish Congress, 161 Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (AUSCS), 229 “American way of life,” 36; and civil religion, 22–25, 27, 237 (n. 13); defined, 23 Ammerman, Jim, 178 Andrews, Joel Earl, 40–41 Anti-Communism, 18, 20, 24, 27–42 passim, 136, 139, 140, 183; religious consensus on, 8, 24, 27, 28–30, 37, 38, 39, 41–42, 226–27, 238 (n. 35); chaplains ’ expressions of, 10, 35, 40–41, 83, 86, 151, 170–71, 187; and religious conservatism, 29–30, 37, 39, 42, 238 (n. 35) Antiwar movement, 8, 11, 134, 137, 169, 235 (n. 23). See also Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam; Draft resistance; Vietnam Veterans Against the War Antiwar sentiment, 215, 225, 227 —religious, 18, 29, 30–31, 132, 134–35, 138–40, 150–52, 158, 229; in scholarship , 5, 8–9, 108, 235 (nn. 22, 23, 24); among chaplains, 10–12, 111–12, 222; chaplains respond to, 84–85, 142, 151, 163–64, 188 —secular, 133–34, 162; in World War II, 8; chaplains respond to, 56–57, 72, 112, 118, 137–38, 182–83, 189–90, 210 Archetypes, of chaplains, 3–6, 224; militarist, 3, 4–5, 106–7, 163, 171, 172; saint, 3, 4, 107, 170, 172; incompetent, 4, 5, 106–7, 146, 172 Area coverage, system of, 53–55, 56, 57, 71, 98, 116, 168, 180, 212–13, 227–28 Armed Forces hymnal. See Book of Worship Army, U.S., 50–67 passim, 77, 89, 155–56, 167–68, 199–203, 205; historical records of, 13, 70, 168; in Korea, 288 | Index 34–35; deployment of chaplains, 13, 40, 44, 45–46; directives on chaplains , 47–49, 59, 62–63, 82–85, 87, 92–93, 163, 200; duties of chaplains, 64–65; changes after Vietnam, 208–9, 213, 222–23 Army Chaplain School, 31–32, 83, 90, 170, 198, 208, 211, 239 (n. 47); survey by, 67, 70, 91, 102, 167, 168, 170, 173, 189, 190, 192, 193 Army chief of chaplains, 36, 49, 51, 59, 80, 83, 86, 87, 92–93, 138, 162, 172, 198, 200, 213 Army Office of the Chief of Chaplains. See Office of the Chief of Chaplains Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), 38, 46, 47, 93, 100, 141, 241 (n. 6), 252 (n. 2) Army War College, 32, 54, 213, 226 Arvay, Al, 87 Assemblies of God (AOG), 26, 52, 135 Associated Press, 157, 219 Association of Jewish Chaplains in the Armed Forces, 153–54 Atheists, 68, 82, 162, 170–71, 193, 215, 263 (n. 68) Atomic bomb, 8, 20, 30, 36, 37, 99 Atrocities. See War crimes and atrocities Autry, Jerry, 104–5, 163, 174, 183–84 “Back in the world” (Vietnam-era slang for the United States), 15, 17, 90, 114, 117, 119, 123, 128, 131, 225 Baldwin, Charles, 215 Bao Dai (Nguyen Phuc Vinh Thuy), 21 Baptism, 109, 119, 130, 202, 229; “Baptism by fire,” 115–16, 119, 165 Baptist General Conference, 153 Baptists, 36, 136, 140, 156–57, 192, 215, 229; numbers of, in chaplaincy, 52, 53, 217; as mainline denomination, 53, 242 (n. 21); first-person accounts of, 167, 189, 190–91. See also American Baptist Convention; National Baptist Convention; Southern Baptist Convention Bastogne, battle of, 4 “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (song), 121, 122, 186–87 Baugham, Billy, 219–20 Baxter, Gary, 117, 252 (n. 54) Beach, Stanley, 124 Beasley, Joseph, 69–70 Bellah, Robert, 22...