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    A Christian Soldier's Dilemma in Iraq: The Christian Entrepreneur and The 21st Century Trial of Jesus
    A Christian Soldier's Dilemma in Iraq: The Christian Entrepreneur and The 21st Century Trial of Jesus
    A Christian Soldier's Dilemma in Iraq: The Christian Entrepreneur and The 21st Century Trial of Jesus
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    A Christian Soldier's Dilemma in Iraq: The Christian Entrepreneur and The 21st Century Trial of Jesus

    By John Bakuhn, Jr.

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    Private Garcia, a Christian soldier, faces a dilemma between his military duty in Iraq and the tenets of his Christian Faith, which forbid killing. Private Garcia struggles with this dilemma after being assigned to go on a patrol, and is finally forced to make a decision between his military duty and his faith. What will his decision be?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMay 3, 2013
    ISBN9781626757295
    A Christian Soldier's Dilemma in Iraq: The Christian Entrepreneur and The 21st Century Trial of Jesus

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    A Christian Soldier's Dilemma in Iraq - John Bakuhn, Jr.

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    A Christian Soldier’s Dilemma in Iraq

    The Location—A Forward Operating Base in Iraq on a brutally hot June day in 2006.

    Soldiers, prepare to move out—we’re going on patrol to kill some enemy, barked Sergeant Frank Williams. Sergeant Williams was a career soldier, a fourteen-year veteran of the US Army and on his third tour of Iraq. However, Private Jose Garcia was reluctant to obey. Though this was Private Garcia’s first tour, he had been on patrols before, but this time he realized what he was. He was a government-trained killer, permitted to legally kill by the government of the United States of America without any consequences since he was a member of the United States Army.

    Garcia had voluntarily joined the military last year to defend his country against terrorism, but he had been questioning his decision. When he heard Sergeant William’s order he began to think. Kill some enemy? Who in Washington determined who the enemy was? The enemy; they were real people who had parents and families like he did and what right did he have to kill a human that had done nothing to him? Was the United States government correct that he should be engaging an enemy in battle? Terrorists had committed a horrible attack against the United States, but was he fighting those responsible for the attack? Why did the Bush administration order the invasion of Iraq?

    After losing a few friends in battle, Private Garcia had begun questioning his military service. What right did he have to take the life of an enemy if they had done nothing to him? In

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