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What you find in a foxhole
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What you find in a foxhole

Religious and civic life alike demand action on the battlefield

REX SMITH
Feb 5
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A foxhole may provide protection, but it’s not where you find faith, no matter what the old saying tells us. (Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.)

Historians don’t know who first said, “There are no atheists in foxholes,” though something like that was attributed to a World War I chaplain, then to a World War II comma…

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