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Article: Constantine's cross is still a pact with the devil. (Viewpoint).(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- October 19, 2001
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Nino doesn't sleep very well. He lives in the bunk below me, and he tosses and turns all night. When he finally does sleep, it is fitful, with his massive hands and feet sprawled over the edge of the bunk. It is as though he is fighting a war in his sleep, and indeed, that is exactly what is happening.
For seven years, Nino fought in the Iran/Iraq war. He showed me the angry gash of shrapnel wounds still sprinkled with a purple dust of metal filings, and the perfect round bullet wounds like vaccination scars on his chest and abdomen. He demonstrated the maneuver of simultaneously pulling down a gas mask and jabbing his thigh with a hypodermic of antitoxin as the ...