<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/50553427-8bfd-43cd-8777-d09915a5e2ef/4DA4FA3C-5CFB-41DF-870F-A2F8A4C5E6C0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570499,00.html?test=faces" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570499,00.html?test=faces" style="font-size: 11px;">www.foxnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570499,00.html?test=faces"><STRONG> All Army chaplains wear the same uniform, and all of them answer to the same calling: to provide comfort and to relieve the suffering of American soldiers.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570499,00.html?test=faces"><P>But one chaplain stands out from the crowd. Thomas Dyer is the first and only Buddhist chaplain in the history of the U.S. <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="14260069"><NOBR id="itxt_nobr_0_0">Army<IMG src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2.gif" name="itxt-icon-77" /></NOBR></A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570499,00.html?test=faces"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.foxnews.com/img/7DB36378-8673-4329-824C-F14327A949A5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570499,00.html?test=faces">Although his faith is grounded in pacifism, the 43-year-old Dyer says war has become a necessary part of peace.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570499,00.html?test=faces"><P>"My teacher has concluded that without the military, without civil protection, the world would enter into a very dark place very quickly," Dyer told <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="14311895">Fox <NOBR id="itxt_nobr_2_0">News<IMG src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2.gif" name="itxt-icon-77" /></NOBR></A>. "There aren't that many caves to run to, there aren't that many mountains to go to anymore. And if we don't have protection, we suffer greatly."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570499,00.html?test=faces"><P>A former Baptist preacher, Dyer found his new faith a few years ago through the practice of intense <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="14291206"><NOBR id="itxt_nobr_3_0">meditation<IMG src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2.gif" name="itxt-icon-77" /></NOBR></A>. Born in Nashville, Tenn., he says his Christian background gives him an advantage in meeting the demands of a military with diverse spiritual needs.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4DA4FA3C-5CFB-41DF-870F-A2F8A4C5E6C0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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