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Crusaders in Iraq

Posted onJune 10, 2013February 7, 2019 By David Perry

In a recent New Yorker piece on the late SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, Nicholas Schmidle writes, Like many soldiers, Kyle was deeply religious and saw the Iraq War through that prism. He tattooed one of his arms with a red crusader’s cross, wanting “everyone to know I was a Christian.” When he learned that insurgents … Continue ReadingCrusaders in Iraq

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