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Chaplain William T. Young and Joan Whitefield Smithey with text "Veterans Serving Veterans" and CalVet logo.

Barstow Chaplain Counts His Blessings as a Veteran Serving Veterans

As the Protestant chaplain at the Veterans Home of California—Barstow, U.S. Army veteran William T. Young sees serving veterans as his divine duty. “I joined the Army in 1983 to pay back my missionary ‘debt,’” Young said. He spent the next 32 years ministering to the spiritual needs of soldiers—from Fort Totten in New York; […]