Caption this Picture!

[Redleg Duke]

Sorry...Saint Barbara.

[TMSuchman]

Peace through superior firepower!

[adaven]

Interesting, thanks for the link.

[crazyhorse691]

http://www.greencis.net/~dianeleigh/rosary.jpg

ACLU sues Army over forcing religon on conscripts

[TexasTaysor]

An American Soldier!!!

nuf said

[crazyhorse691]

Grrrr. I meant to post the picture already posted. Keyboard and brain malfunction.

[Fiddlstix]

Onward Christian Soldiers

[Sensei Ern]

"And St. Attila raised the hand grenade up on high saying: "Oh Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayest blow thine ennemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." The Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and ..."

"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither countest thou two, excepting that thou then proceedest to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy holy hand grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it. (amen)"
Armaments, chapter II, verses 9-21

[Recon Dad]

"God Bless America, He gave us the Marines"

"Peace through superior fire power"

"Marines fear only God, no others"

[PajamaTruthMafia]

The MSM caption would read something like, "US Soldiers force Christianity on Iraqis" or some other anti-American propaganda!

[MissAmericanPie]

ROFLOL

[Army Air Corps]

I do what I can. :-) That photo says more than just Faith and firepower.

[hoot2]

"Dear LORD. Please help me and this weapon, to only kill terrorists. Amen."

[benjaminjjones]

The Last Crusade!

[dangus]

One, two, FIVE! No, three!

[Howlin]

That's my absolute favorite hymn.

My first thoughts about this picture were it's true: there really aren't any atheists in foxholes.

[Gabz]

Praise the Lord.........and pass the ammunition.

[dangus]

Four sets of mysteries thou shall not counteth, wait, no... I'm all confused!

(Catholic in joke.)

[the invisib1e hand]

"For God and Country."

I am so proud that I'm an American.

[soldierette]

I saw mention of this picture in today's Opinion Journal "Best of the Web," this is a cut and paste from there:

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letter to the editor of the (Madison) Wisconsin State Journal from one Patty Sommer (third letter):

Your front-page photo of the soldier with the rosary hanging off his or her gun shocked and appalled me. I have been against the war in Iraq from the get-go, but I don't think anyone in this country has ever tried to justify it on religious grounds. The image just gives fodder to those who would characterize this war as another Christian crusade against Muslims.

While I hesitate to criticize our troops, that soldier should not have displayed a religious symbol on his or her weapon. Certainly his or her commanding officer should not have allowed it. Absolutely, the Wisconsin State Journal should not have published it. As an American, I am disgusted. As a Catholic, I am outraged and offended. My religion has nothing to do with President Bush's war.

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After all the backlash over the picture of the Marine with a cigarette in his mouth, you knew something like this was coming.

I wonder if this woman found the time to write any letters about Saddam and his torture chambers, or about the taliban murders of women in Afghanistan. Was she outraged and offended by the events of 9/11? I imagine those things were not so very offensive that she felt compelled to write a letter about it or do anything else.

But, give a soldier a rosary and she gets all fired up.

As an American, I find that disgusting.