CAPT. WALTER F* HENRY
Commanding Officer
CDR. CHARLES V. AUGUSTUS
Executive Officer
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CHAPLAIN'S
CORNER.;,
TRADEGY ON ADAK: •
No one likes to ponder on unhappy mem
ories or to review* the unpleasant, but
the recent tradegy in our midst, the
death of two Naval Officers, would-have
been in vain, a total negative-, if we
were not to draw certain lessons benefi
cial to our total Adak family, each and
every inhabitant on this island, madwo
man* .and child, military and civilian*
To the non-religious man, their death
had no meaning, : except a negative one*
This is the way such a man would reason?
two men lost their lives* They were in
the prime of their youth;* - they were in-j
telligent; they had promising militaryj
careers ahead,' if they so chose. Perhaps
in a short time* 1 they, would have been!
married and.settled down to a good, re-j
spec table family life, :-in or out of the!
service* We might say* f,AH these, years]
they were preparing themselves for a pi-]
ace in the sun, and just when 1 the raysj
were striking brightest, a cloud snatch
ed. it sway1**
To the1 religious man, their untimely
deaths were replete with meaning^Thik &
the. way he would reason* rfThe lord give
th, the Lord taketh away.w "Know you not
CHAPLAIN
MARfTATQ
that the hairs on your head are number
ed *n "But if the Lord taketh care of
the birds of the air and clothes the
i lillies of the field, how much more Oh
you of little faith,"
Death is never easy to understand;nor
is it easy to undergo% This emanates
from the fact that every man is subject
to the law of self-preservation* No ene
wants to die, not really,although under
certain circumstances a man might cs ay
so. Even Christ, about to undergo the
ignonminious death of the cross, in an
quish of spirit, uttered the words l
"Father, if it be possible, let this
chalice(of suffering) pass from Me, yet
not My will, but Thine be done."
God has called these two men home,
their real home, the heavenly Jerusalem
of which the Bible speaks so many times.
They were only human and as humans they
obeyed ’the command of God; "Remember,
man, that thou art dust, and unto dust
thou shalt return," They were young, it
is true, but again death knows no age*
"Death'comes like a thief in the night"
"When , the lamp is extinguished, the Br
idegroom cOmeth."Life is but a pilgrim
age- and we are all wayfarers; life is
-but .a stage and we are all, playing a
role, some major, some minor".
Taken out of its proper context their
tradegy,: their death, leaves us morose
and melancholy; but, in the over-all
Providence•of God, the Master designer
of life* in its minutest details, we
find, the recurrent theme* . "God made me
to know* Him, to love Him, and to serve
Him in this world, and to be happy with
Him in the next"..
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