Faith and the Front Line is a compilation of interviews and inspirational stories from our: Mission Outreach Trips, Soldiers, Combat Veterans, and Army Chaplains. Through “boots on ground” mission outreach programs home and abroad combined with video/photo journalism documentation we strengthen the Judeo-Christian Principles that our great Nation was founded upon by advancing religious liberty, democracy and the inviolable dignity of the human person in persecuted and impoverished territories.

A VETERANS DAY TRIBUTE TO OUR TROOPS 2011

(South Dakota) 7/4/2011: INTERVIEW WITH IRAQ WAR VETERAN CAPTAIN JOEL ARENDS, CHAIR AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF VETERANS FOR A STRONG AMERICA

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WWII TRIBUTE AND EXCERPT FROM: Chaplain Francis L. Sampson, Look Out Below, 101st Airborne Division 

“The hard and difficult things about war for those at the front were the days that went by when none could raise his eyes beyond the next foxhole or above the next rise of muddy ground.

Friends died and were taken away, and we were all too busy with the work at hand to think about them very long. A little later, during a lull in battle, we were able to assemble information at a military cemetery for services. The services were very sincere but short, for our duties called us back to the front almost immediately. There are many things about war that we want to forget. We are anxious to forget the necessary sordidness and cruelties of battle. We want to forget the mud and the muck and the mire, the painful days and the endless nights. We want to forget the sickening sensation of fear.

But there are many things that those who "were there" will want to remember. We want to remember the innate sense of humor of the American Soldier, that reservoir of good nature that seems to be a by-product of his native courage and optimism, an incredible ability to joke and laugh under the most severe trials." -Army Chaplain Sampson

Chaplain Francis L. Sampson, Look Out Below, 101^st Airborne Division Association, Inc., Sweetwater, TN, 1989

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Father Francis Sampson was a Catholic Chaplain during WWII for the 501st Parachute Infantry regiment, 101st Airborne Division.