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The role of the chaplain in the military is to provide spiritual support, pastoral care, and moral guidance to service members. Military chaplains did so much more and with little training during WWI. Many chaplains took it upon themselves to expand their duties into a more active role such as assisting medical practitioners and writing letters home on behalf of service members. With the aid of primary sources this lesson focuses on the roles and responsibilities that chaplains took on in addition to providing spiritual support.