independentchristian
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Tue Feb-08-05 09:36 PM
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I heard last year that suicide rates among troops in Iraq were up |
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Tue Feb-08-05 11:53 PM
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1. Ash Wednesday????? Mardi Gras???? |
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Remember Mardi Gras ends at 12:01 AM Ash Wednesday (2/9/05), thus someone might have decided it would be good for some troops to attend a little Mardi Gras Celebration followed by a Ash Wednesday Mass. Not all of the people may have wanted to attend BOTH, but enough. There is no way you could hold a Mardi Gras in Iraq, and the risk of wearing ashes on one's head for Ash Wednesday also would have been to high. Thus a general move to a select group to both both (or just one). Speculation but it is that time of year.
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