Question by digs_harleys: How does “The War Prayer” by Mark Twain connect to the war in Iraq?

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Answer by englishteach
At church each Sunday our pastor prays for our soilders in Iraq to return home safely. He does not mention the people they are fighting…but any time anyone justifies war in the name of God or Our Country, we are essentially praying for the deaths of someone else’s son, husband, father, mother, sister, wife, daughter…
In “The War Prayer,” Twain masterfully says, “O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.”

Isn’t this what some people wish when it somes to Iraq?

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