U.S. troops in Afghanistan

Daily Mail ^ | 11/24/2011 | Mark Duell

[Just4Him]

Onward Christian soldiers? U.S. troops in Afghanistan furious after cross on chapel is removed for 'breaking Army rules'

U.S. soldiers at a remote base in Afghanistan were left outraged after a large cross outside a chapel was taken down because it broke Army rules. Servicemen at Camp Marmal in northern Afghanistan, a German base for NATO forces, said they found the cross ‘inspiring’ and ‘motivating’. But the base chaplain was forced to take it down because his Army manual bans the permanent display of ‘distinctive religious symbols’.

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[Just4Him]

Yikes, submitted without finishing the tile. Sorry y’all.

[gaijin]

Enforcing Yemeni borders, but not US borders.

Kids gloves for mosques, but the back-side of the glove for churches.

SOMETHING IS *WRONG*.

[Salvation]

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[Does so]

I disagree with taking the cross down, but did the chaplin—or whoever—have to "size" the cross so as to appear it was made out of telephone poles?