Ex-West Point chaplain named cardinal

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<p><a href=“http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/07/ap_baltimorecardinal_070713/[/url]”>http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/07/ap_baltimorecardinal_070713/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien’s devotion to soldiers motivated him while ministering to West Point cadets in 1970, inspiring him to enlist in the Vietnam War to become closer to them.</p>

<p>“I was blessing new cadets in May and burying them by December. I thought it my duty to be more identified with them,” O’Brien said in his biography on the Archdiocese for the Military Services Web site.</p>

<p>The Vatican announced Thursday that O’Brien, head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services for 10 years, would replace the retiring Baltimore Cardinal William H. Keeler on Oct. 1. O’Brien, 68, will be the 15th archbishop of Baltimore, the oldest diocese in the U.S…

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