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Perhaps you noticed last week that Robert Sherrod of TIME was one of the nine correspondents commended by the Army for their conduct during the 20-day fighting on Attu...
...this week I thought you might be interested in reading something of what Sherrod sent home to News Bureau Chief David Hulburd about a war correspondent's life on Attu...
Close by, two buglers play taps. The Chaplains put on their caps and the graveyard bulldozer huff-puffs again, pushing mounds of cold Attu earth over the khaki-clad bodies of eight U.S. soldiers...
...legend on Attu by now that the Chaplains have been as splendid under fire as any combat soldiers. Burying the dead is only a small part of the Chaplain's work, but nothing concerns them more than that each dead soldier shall have religious services before his cross is raised...
...Chaplains begin to sing, the first verse, then the third verse of Rock of Ages, The ranking Chaplain (of 13) on Attu, Lieut. Colonel Reuben E. Curtis, a Mormon from Salt Lake City, opens his khaki Bible and reads "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. . . ." He prays: "O God, great and omnipotent judge of the living and the dead, before whom we all are to appear after this short life to render an account of our works, lift our hearts, we pray Thee...