“We think of 9/11 every day,” says Rabbi Joseph Potasnik of Congregation Mount Sinai in Brooklyn Heights. “All you do when it comes to the anniversary, you try to look back and say have I made a difference?”

Since Congress repealed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell last December, more than one million US troops have taken instruction in the new policy. But some military chaplains are raising concerns.

This week Congress authorized a new memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to honor 13 fallen Jewish military chaplains.

"Soldiers carry all the moral weight of war, and we carry very little, and we need to share that moral burden by realizing that they are our surrogates," says the author of "The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers."

Mariners and sailors, says Rev. David Rider, often experience God's presence and absence in the depth of their souls, and for almost two centuries an ecumenical ministry based at the Port of New York and New Jersey has advocated for their spiritual and professional well-being.

The New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, directed by two Buddhist monks, is training chaplains, caregivers, and health care professionals to listen to patients and lighten the burden of their suffering and pain.

Several studies recently have addressed the religious interest, or lack of it, of young adults. We wondered how religion is faring on college campuses. Lucky Severson visited Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island to find out.