a story of The Cross

Submitted by Ed Brophy (United States), Dec 13, 2005 at 14:04

During my military days I played racquetball weekly with our Catholic Chaplain. In 1990 he alerted me to the fact he was being reassigned to Saudi Arabia. He also told me he would have to remove the very small cross (insignia on his collar denoting his status as chaplain) from his uniform before he landed. This, even though he would be spending all of his time in uniform.on the US Air Force base there. I thought at first he was joking-he was not.

The next year, of course, we went to the aid of the Saudis who were about to be gobbled up by Saddam Hussian.

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