The dreaded knock : What can possible be worth a soldier's life ? : Reflection
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article36337
- Author
- Lambert, Lee
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2010 September
- Author
- Lambert, Lee
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2010 September
- Volume
- 135
- Issue
- 7
- Page
- 5
- Notes
- The author, an Anglican military chaplain, describes his feelings as he goes out to inform a family that their loved one, a young soldier with a wife and child, has been killed in Afghanistan. "We get sidetracked en route, giving this woman an extra two minutes of not knowing that her husband is dead. She might be lying awake thinking of him at this very moment, wondering how he is and what he is doing, thinking of a brighter future: birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, grandchildren that they will enjoy together. All those things are about to be taken away. By me."
- Author "has been a Canadian Forces chaplain for seven years ... and is the rector of St. Mary's Anglican Church in Russell, Ont."
- Subjects
- Military chaplains - Anglican Church of Canada
- Canada - Armed Forces - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Afghan War, 2001 - Participation, Canadian
- Death - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Grief - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church work with the bereaved - Anglican Church of Canada
- Location
- General Synod Archives