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Thanks and Praise

Instead of sitting in a hotel room in Bagdhad, journalist Michael Yon is actually out there traveling around with the Iraqi people, not just coalition forces. Today he posted this amazing photograph and story:

Thanks and Praise: I photographed men and women, both Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John�s Church in Baghdad. They had taken the cross from storage and a man washed it before carrying it up to the dome.

Thanks and Praise
A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from �Chosen� Company 2-12 Cavalry to the church, where I videotaped as Muslims and Christians worked and rejoiced at the reopening of St John�s, an occasion all viewed as a sign of hope.

The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people. �Thank you, thank you,� the people were saying. One man said, �Thank you for peace.� Another man, a Muslim, said �All the people, all the people in Iraq, Muslim and Christian, is brother.� The men and women were holding bells, and for the first time in memory freedom rang over the ravaged land between two rivers.

And reports of this from our biased main-stream media? . . . . . . -- crickets -- Posted by DaveH at November 7, 2007 8:55 PM