Hello and welcome to Capagansk's Live on this 4th of July. Thanks so much for being here

with us on this 4th of July. Maybe it's 4th of July afternoon or evening if you're here

in the United States. If you're joining us from somewhere outside of the United States,

while you're missing the hot dogs, you're missing the fireworks, you're missing all that,

but we're awful glad you're here for the show. I don't know if I said it. I'm Si Kill at your host

and we welcome a wonderful 4th of July guest this hour. We're delighted to welcome Bishop Joseph

Coffee, who's auxiliary Bishop for the military services here in the United States. Bishop Coffee,

thank you so much for being here with us on the 4th of July. Well, thank you Si. It's a real pleasure

and it's an honor to be with you. I'm a huge fan of Capaganskers that have been for many years.

Well, you go way back with some of the people here at Capaganskers and I believe there's

something of a miracle in your life and that is you went to seminary with Tim Staples and you

still became a priest. Tim is one beautiful human being. Yes, he was a St. Charles seminary studying

for the priesthood. He was there with his brother Terry who did become a priest for Arlington

and Tim was really, really entertaining. As you can imagine, in the refractory at a table full

of seminarians regaling us with stories of his conversion and when he was a Jimmy swaggered and

how they tried to get the devil out of him. He was just a really marvelous young man and we've

been friends ever since. Well, we're always we've seen you here in the building a few times. It's

very, very nice of you to come by and visit us when you're out here in San Diego. San Diego is a

big Navy town. You are a naval officer. Is that the correct way to say it to a naval officer?

That's correct. I'm actually retired from the Navy. I did that total of 28 years in the Navy.

Nine in the reserve, 19 on active duty as a Navy chaplain and I tore as a camp Pendleton and the

Marine Corps boot camp San Diego. So I got to live in a lovely San Diego area for about six years and

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