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[Author's Note: This was originally written as an assignment in response to reading Joseph Heller's Catch-22 . One option was to write an episode from the story. I decided to write about the Chaplain, a character I adore. That being said, this takes place around Page 214, Paragraph 2 (from the copy I have, which I assume is the most popular copy).] Captain Chaplain Albert T. Tappman was a meek man, never asking too much from anyone, always being exploited by everyone. This included God. He sat with his head bowed inside his tent, placed in the clearing, away from the men, enlisted and officers alike. His only companion was Corporal Whitcomb, who lived to make his life miserable, or so Whitcomb thought was his God-given mandate. Being an atheist, however, he didn’t believe in God, or any god for that matter. This did not change the importance of the mandate given by this God, big g or little, regardless of existence. Whitcomb’s current task in this grand scheme of the Go