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A Passion for Serving Soldiers
US Army Chaplain Rev. Lucy Der-Garabedian, was raised in war-torn Lebanon. She lost her brother, a soldier, in the Lebanese Civil War, and from that experience, became passionate about soldiers.
After immigrating to the United States, she was serving as pastor in Michigan when a friend who was a reservist chaplain questioned why she had never joined the chaplaincy. “I am a female,” Der-Garabedian recalled telling him. “To which my friend said, ‘We have female chaplains in the Army.’ I didn’t know that was a possibility.”... Read more here
