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Those Immortal Chaplains I cannot believe that in the article on military chaplaincy by John J. McLain, S.J. (“Showing God’s Face on the Battlefield,” 11/17), you did not tell the story behind the picture of that famous postage stamp which you used to illustrate the article; surely

George Tooker (b.1920) is a living American artist whose work, and in some respects whose life, seems especially pertinent to our times. Deeply spiritual and therefore attuned to social injustice and destructive societal trends, Tooker painted his most provocative works as protests against