A Chaplain's Test of Faith

As the Army's Case Against Muslim James Yee Collapsed, His Own World Was Crumbling, Too

By Ray Rivera

Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 9, 2005; Page D01

His wife held the gun in one hand and two bullets in the other.

"Tell me how to use it," she whispered over the phone from the couple's Olympia, Wash., apartment. Of everything Chaplain James Yee had been through -- the arrest, the espionage allegations, the 76 days in solitary confinement -- this was the worst moment.