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Veterans History Project Service Summary:

  • Service History Note: The veteran served as a Navy chaplain.
  • War or Conflict: Persian Gulf War, 1991
  • Branch of Service: Navy
  • Unit of Service: USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55)
  • Location of Service: Asia; Africa; Middle East; Europe; Caribbean; Okinawa, Japan; Korea; National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland; Guam (Mariana Islands); Kuwait
  • Highest Rank: Commander

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"You have to be ready at any time, you have to be a chaplain every minute, because people will approach you, 24 hours, any time, no matter what you’re doing, in the military they know you’re a chaplain. So I came up with my own motto eventually, that I’m a chaplain every minute." (Audio Interview, 8:03)

Mark Jumper was in seminary when he got a second calling, to join the Navy as a chaplain. He soon realized there was no time off for a military chaplain, who had to be prepared for consultation at any moment. During a desert training exercise, he pushed himself too hard and went down with heat stroke, depriving his men, as a senior chaplain reminded him, of his much-needed services during his recovery. Aboard ship during a threatened gas attack amid a shortage of masks, Jumper recalled the legendary Four Chaplains of WWII, who sacrificed their own lives to evacuate men from a sinking ship. Jumper also designed and implemented a Warrior Transition program for Marines looking to adjust to life after wartime.

Mark Andrew Jumper Collection
Interview / Recording

Transcript: XML

About this Item

Title

  • Mark Andrew Jumper Collection

Names

  • Cook Memorial Public Library
  • Jumper, Mark Andrew
  • Bassett, Ellen

State of Birth

  • TX

Home State

  • IL

Headings

  • -  Jumper, Mark Andrew
  • -  Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Personal Narratives
  • -  United States. Navy.

Repository

  • Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Gender

  • Male

Race

  • White

Status

  • Veteran

Service History

  • Persian Gulf War, 1991

    • Service History Note: The veteran served as a Navy chaplain.
    • Branch of Service: Navy
    • Unit of Service: USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55)
    • Location of Service: Asia; Africa; Middle East; Europe; Caribbean; Okinawa, Japan; Korea; National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland; Guam (Mariana Islands); Kuwait
    • Highest Rank: Commander
    • Dates of Service: 1982-2006
    • Military Status: Veteran

Materials

  • Computer File: CD [1 item] -- Electronic file of manuscript (collected 2007)
  • Manuscript: Transcript [1 item] -- Transcription of audio recording (collected 4/25/2007)
  • Audio: Audio Cassette [1 item] -- Oral history interview (collected 4/25/2007)
  • Photograph: Digital print [8 items] -- Photograph (collected unknown)
  • Computer File: Floppy Disk [1 item] -- Electronic file of manuscript (collected 04/25/2007)

Collection Number

  • AFC/2001/001/53022

Cite as

  • Mark Andrew Jumper Collection (AFC/2001/001/53022), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Online Format

  • audio
  • online text

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

Using VHP Material in Publication or Exhibition

The Veterans History Project (VHP) at the Library of Congress collects, preserves and makes accessible the firsthand recollections of U.S. military veterans who served from World War I through more recent conflicts and peacekeeping missions, so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand what they saw, did and felt during their service. The Veterans History Project Collection includes oral histories along with documentary materials such as original letters, diaries, photographs, and memoirs.

Veterans and interviewers contribute these materials to the Library for scholarly and educational purposes, retaining any copyright they may hold. Therefore, permission must be obtained before using the interview or other materials in exhibition or publication. Researchers or others who would like to make further use of these materials should contact the Veterans History Project for assistance.

As a publicly supported institution, the Library generally does not own rights to material in its collections. Therefore, it does not charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot give or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute material in its collections. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item from the Library’s collections and for securing any necessary permissions rests with persons desiring to use the item.

Please contact us with questions.

Obtaining Copies of VHP Materials

In order for VHP materials to be duplicated, we must receive written permission from the interviewee for you to obtain a copy of the recording unless the proposed use is limited to personal use, research, or other uses permissible by copyright law. If the interviewee is deceased, their next-of-kin may grant written permission.

Please contact VHP for assistance if you need to contact a veteran for permission to use their materials in exhibition or publication, or if you have received permission from the veteran and need access to high-resolution copies of VHP collection materials.

Citing VHP Materials

Please use the following formats when citing Veterans History Project materials (substituting the appropriate name and collection ID number).

Materials as a whole:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Manuscript material:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Memoirs (MS02), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Transcript (MS04), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Correspondence (MS01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Recording:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Audio recording (SR01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Video recording (MV01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Photograph:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Photographs (PH01), photographer unknown, Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Photographs (PH03-PH14), Ralph Williams photographer, Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Computer file:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Computer file (CF01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Artifact:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Artifact (AR01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Cook Memorial Public Library, Mark Andrew Jumper, and Ellen Bassett. Mark Andrew Jumper Collection. 1982. Personal Narrative. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.53022/.

APA citation style:

Cook Memorial Public Library, Jumper, M. A. & Bassett, E. (1982) Mark Andrew Jumper Collection. [Personal Narrative] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.53022/.

MLA citation style:

Cook Memorial Public Library, Mark Andrew Jumper, and Ellen Bassett. Mark Andrew Jumper Collection. 1982. Personal Narrative. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.53022/>.