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Wing And A Prayer

By Zelie Pollon, AlterNet. Posted January 26, 2005.


For U.S. soldiers in Iraq, religion becomes the response to unanswerable questions and helps them make it through the day.
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Zelie Pollon, a freelance writer from Santa Fe, N.M., is in Iraq for the second time. The first time she interviewed more than 100 Iraqi citizens for an independent venture called the .

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