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Release date: Jun 15, 2021
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As an Arizona Army National Reservist, Chandler was deployed to Iraq as chaplain of the 336th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, leaving behind his As an Arizona Army National Reservist, Chandler was deployed to Iraq as chaplain of the 336th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, leaving behind his wife, three young children, and a congregation for more than a year. In this painful but eloquent memoir, Chandler shares his story of serving as an embedded presence of hope in Iraq through personal letters, journal entries, scriptures and photos exchanged with family back home. Expanding far beyond the military chaplain caricature of M A S H s Father Francis Mulcahy, Chandler reflects on the brutal realities of war, his fellow soldiers, and the families waiting for them all to come home.
May 1, 2021
Mom, Aunt, GG, Gwen. All names used by those who cared for her most in the world. Gwen Lorraine Powell was born February 8, 1944, in Ann Arbor, MI. She was the daughter of Helen Hinterman Powell and John (Jack) Powell
At 4, the family moved to Pleasant Ridge, MI. At 12, she moved to Evansville, IN. She eventually moved back to MI where she attended Ferndale High School and then Michigan State University where she earned a BA in Education in 1965.
She met her husband of 53 years, Michael Elbert, while teaching in Virginia. They were married on July 4, 1967 in Switzerland. They went on to have two sons: Andrew and Christian. They lived in Pleasant Ridge, MI for 28 years. They moved to Tucson, AZ in 2006.