Article May 12, 2003 Issue

How an embedded war correspondent in Iraq prayed

Name withheld

IN A BRIEF WORSHIP SERVICE in the Kuwaiti desert before the order came down to cross the line of departure into Iraq, a US Army chaplain read the first 11 verses of the 91st Psalm and assured the 100 or so assembled soldiers of the 3rd Squadron, 7th US Cavalry, that "God is watching over you."

The soldiers, and those of us traveling with them, were strengthened by the thought that we did indeed "abide under the shadow of the Almighty" and that we need not be "afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day."

I watched tough Army sergeants fingering rosaries, earnest young men gripping paperback Bibles with both hands, and others simply standing with their heads bowed in prayer.

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