David Fox-Benton and Bruce Weigl — Sacrifice and Reconciliation

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On Being : David Fox-Benton and Bruce Weigl — Sacrifice and Reconciliation Image

David Fox-Benton and Bruce Weigl — Sacrifice and Reconciliation

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In remembering the legacy of four World War II chaplains — Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish — who went down together with their torpedoed ship in 1943, we speak with David Fox, nephew of one of the chaplains. We also hear interviews with surviving veterans and veterans of the German ship that torpedoed them. Finally, a conversation with author, poet, and Vietnam War veteran Bruce Weigl. His most recent book, The Circle of Hahn, chronicles the long personal journey he has made back to Vietnam and to the adoption of a beloved Vietnamese child. The paradox of his life as a writer, he says, is that the war ruined his life and gave him his voice.