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How the US military has embraced growing religious diversity

  • Written by Ronit Y. Stahl, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
How the US military has embraced growing religious diversityVice President Mike Pence joins military officers and a chaplain on Aug. 23, 2019 in a prayer for two Army men who died during operations in Afghanistan.AP Photo/Cliff Owen

In 1919, Lee Levinger buried four soldiers in France. The responsibility to preside over a funeral was not unusual for military chaplains. But during World War I, most Americans...

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