the prayer of soldiers

My reaction to that picture? They are probably terrified. Praying to God to protect them and to forgive them for what may be about to happen. I just thank my stars that it is not me in a situation like that. I find it intersting that the picture "tickles" you?? Personally I find the picture extremely sad.

I guess the most important for every person that if we can go back home to our family alive without any serious injury. I guess they pray for their safety, and the war to end very soon. I dont think they won't care if they win or lose as long as they can go back home alive. War never easy for any soldier. As we know the soldier who get back from war have some psychological problems, they can't sleep well as the war always come to their nightmare every night. Remember the face of person that they killed. May be we should pray too, we should grateful for the war that doesn't happen in our country

What tickles ME is imagining what the replies might have been if the people in those pictures were MOSLEM FIGHTERS ?Would there have been so many sympathetic posts about the plight of people having to "kill or be killed" ? I respect someone who pays his life for honour and in defending himself and his country- that is called courage . I cannot respect someone who will risk his life- and that of others- for PAY because he cannot get money another way and because he feels superior to the opponent -therefore less likely to die than them -makiing it easier to "sell" one's life for money without there being a just cause -those people are called "mercenaries"

My reaction to the photo is different from yours. I do not wonder what they are praying for. When I was a soldier I had many friends who were combat veterns. They all told me they essentially prayed for the same thing. Peace.

So it tickles you that these soldiers, black and white, male and female, have made sacrifices for the protection of the United States? Of, course they are praying, they're at war. They are probably praying that they all come back from their mission alive ... they are probably praying that as many lives as possible will be spared. They are probably praying for an end to a war that they didn't start so that they can rejoin their families ... they might even be praying that those at home appreciate their efforts, because while you and I are sitting at home in front of our computers in a country that has been kept safe by soliders for generation after generation, they are facing car bombs and IUDs and many other things that you better pray you never face.

I would say that they are praying for forgiveness because it is what they have to do, for safety because war is a dangerous place to be, and for peace in hoping that the war could ended without much more killing and agony. I feel sad seeing the picture, as I could imagine what they must be feeling. Those soldiers, most of them dont want to go to war, dont want to kill another person, but they have to do it to protect their country.

I never like war,we should not kill other human being we are not having rights to kill any one so peace and pray to god is my desire,I want to after i saw the picture god forgive them and convert their mind no more war and walk our from there and they should go to their family and love their family member and each other like that i pray to GOD.

When I look at the picture, I see another group of soldiers in the enemy camp doing the same, praying that they win the battle. I don't know to which god, this will be a good introduction to "gods must be crazy part 6" lol

I think that this photo is beautiful!!! I think that each and every soldier is a brave and powerful man. They are strong men for having the strength to leave their lives and families to fight for their country and beliefs!!

i feel full of emotions

These people at first maybe choose to be soldiers becase they think, by becoming soldiers, they can protect their own country. But, who would ever expect then they got sent to IRaq and fought a war. I fully understand your point of view that they can choose not to. It is a life that they choose and it is to be respected. As for the picture, it would be hard to guess what they are praying for. I would say that may God always protect them and keep them alive, that is normal isnt it? but then, they might be praying for the war to end or for them to win the war, pray for them to get the stregh from God to do what they have to do (I cant say if it is right or wrong, afterall God look at their heart and human cant guess that). I cannot understand really about soldier feeling but I guess what they are taugh and built into their mind is if they do not kill, they will be killed. If you ask for my reaction, I feel sympathy to them. they must look tough but they are risking their life out there, no matter how tough you look, the feeling of afraid losing your life would be threre, Moreover if they still have their family awaiting for their return at home. It is really sad whenever the times of war come that families are waiting for their member of family that goes to war with uncertainty.

They are praying for their lives as you or I.

They pray for their safety, they pray for their families, they pray for those they are defending. It is hard for them to take lives. It scars them more than you will ever know, because the sad truth of war is that the people actually doing the fighting usually are not who or what needs to be fought. Does that make sense? War is no longer about God being on our side, although when Al Qaida attacks, they claim it is on behalf of Allah. The current war is about assistant a people who were unable to defend themselves against the Tyranny of Saddam and trying to get internal issues under control. Unlike America, where if you don't like what we are doing you can stand on the street with signs condemning whatever it is, they are a country where if you disagree, you start a bomb to your chest or your children's chest and denonate it where you think it will have the most impact. That is why we are there, and we have to pray for God to spare us, because it is really something good we are trying to do. We are trying to keep several people from destroying each other. They do not have the luxury of saying, "well I will just vote for the other guy in 4 years."

I'm a soldier too and have men under me. We always huddle up and pray. We pray for these things 1) to survive 2) when it's our time to move up, may it be an uneventful one 3) all of us gets to go home alive and well 4) if this is a useless fight I pray the govt realize it and send us home 5) God to watch over us