Memorial Day, Every Day For Arlington National Cemetery Chaplain

Rosslyn, VA Patch:

Lt. Col. Keith Croom's first reaction is to crack a joke and a smile. He has the ease and charm you would expect from a man raised in the South. You probably wouldn't call him serious, and definitely not somber.

Until you bring up his job. Because there's not much funny about his job.

Croom is a chaplain in the U.S. Army, assigned as that branch's senior chaplain at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Comments

[Forester]

06:58 PM on 05/31/2011

How interesting it is that Arlington was initially made a military cemetery to spite the Lee family, and this government seizure of private property was eventually ruled illegal by the supreme court.

[JOHNSPEAKS]

02:38 PM on 05/31/2011

Is this -Chaplain- one of those cowards that will sell out the solders for political correctness or is he a man of the real -God- who honors his fellow soliders with courage and conviction? The Catholic church called the bluff of the secular spineless wonders in the midwest and will not do Catholic adoptions anymore? Do our Military Chaplains have the courage to speak out against this abomination and resign in mass protest to protect our soliders or are they worthless cowards that are only interested in saving there jobs???