This is an article I wrote for my Substack page.  War is ugly, but it has its redeeming aspects.  I do not figure that most of you will read the six-part article contained in the American Ecclesiastical Review, so I have at least posted this pithy article on Fr. Francis Sampson, a priest from Des Moines, Iowa.  The movie, Saving Private Ryan was actually based upon his life.  He served as a chaplain in World War II. 


<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">Paratrooper Padre: The Priest Behind the Real Private Ryan  by Bryan Shepherd</p><p></p><a data-post-link href="https://bryanshepherd.substack.com/p/paratrooper-padre-the-priest-behind">Read on Substack[/url]</div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>