A dedicated community servant, Jack ministers to local veterans as a chaplain at Dublin\’s Carl Vinson VA Medical Center and to readers of The Courier Herald through the encouraging words he pens in regular columns. He is a veteran of two different military branches, having served as a U.S. Marine in the Korean conflict and later a U.S. Army chaplain in various parts of Europe and Asia, including with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. He has also worked as a pastor and dean of students at two Baptist colleges. Since moving to Dublin in 1991, he has ministered in various ways to former service members and others in need, particularly at the VA and in local hospitals and nursing homes, where he regularly visits and brings smiles to faces by playing tunes on his harmonica.
His father was a veteran of War World I and a share-cropper. Brown worked on the farm and worked at other jobs to help supplement the family income. He was also a good student in school and desired to attend college and high school.
All of us tuned in to this respected broadcaster who was heard over Armed Forces Radio wherever American servicemen and women were stationed. During his 70 years of radio broadcasting, he was the most listened to voice in America.
Omar Nelson Bradley, graduate of West Point, Class of 1915, and gentleman of integrity, was the last of the five-star generals and was "America's foremost battle leader" during World War II.