In the Second World War, the armed forces added many more chaplains. These chaplains were tasked with caring for soldiers' spiritual needs and morale. They held and arranged services, and were a source of encouragement and comfort to the GIs. Religion for American GIs in Europe was really no different than at home. Chaplain Harold E. Mayo wrote to a friend that he could not "see that men overseas are much more religious or irreligious than at home. They stack up about as usual... Some get religion under fire," (Piehler 87). Though religion was really no different between home and the front, there was a chasm that existed. The chaplain did believe that those back home could use a lesson from those in Europe: for them to understand that suffering
