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From fork-admin@xent.com Fri Sep 20 21:47:36 2002
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From: "John Hall" <johnhall@evergo.net>
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To: <fork@spamassassin.taint.org>
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Subject: RE: <nettime> The War Prayer
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:33:59 -0700
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I'm sure Patton used it.
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I'm all for using it in the coming war with Iraq.
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Yet I'd be queasy about doing it in the Philippines circa 1905, which
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was his point.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: fork-admin@xent.com [mailto:fork-admin@xent.com] On Behalf Of R.
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A.
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> Hettinga
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> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:44 PM
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> To: Digital Bearer Settlement List; fork@spamassassin.taint.org
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> Subject: <nettime> The War Prayer
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>
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>
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> --- begin forwarded text
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>
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>
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> Status: RO
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> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:57:27 -0700
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> To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net
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> From: Phil Duncan <PDuncan@AggregateStudio.com>
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> Subject: <nettime> The War Prayer
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> Sender: nettime-l-request@bbs.thing.net
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> Reply-To: Phil Duncan <PDuncan@AggregateStudio.com>
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>
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> The following prayer is from a story by Mark Twain, and was quoted by
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> Lewis
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> Laphan in the October issue of Harper's magazine. It occurs at the
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very
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> end
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> of an excellent article which I recommend to you.
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>
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> In the story, an old man enters a church where the congregation has
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been
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> listening to an heroic sermon about "the glory to be won in battle by
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> young
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> patriots armed with the love of God." He usurps the pulpit and prays
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the
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> following:
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>
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> "O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreads with
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our
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> shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of
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their
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> patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the
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shrieks of
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> their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble
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homes
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> with
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> a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending
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> widows
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> with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their
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little
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> children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in
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rags
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> and
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> hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy
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winds of
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> winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the
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refuge
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> of
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> the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast
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their
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> hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make
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heavy
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> their
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> steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the
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> blood
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> of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is
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the
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> Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all
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that
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> are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts.
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Amen."
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>
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> Twain wrote the story, "The War Prayer," in 1905 during the American
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> occupation of the Philippines, but the story wasn't printed until
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1923,
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> thirteen years after his death, because the editors thought it
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> "unsuitable"
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> for publication at the time it was written.
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>
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> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission
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> # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
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> # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
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body
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> # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
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>
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> --- end forwarded text
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>
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>
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> --
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> -----------------
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> R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
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> "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
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> [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
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> experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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