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Baptized Before Battle

Marines turn to God ahead
of anticipated Fallujah battle
The crowd followed the Chaplain outside their small auditorium for a baptism of about a half-dozen Marines who had just found Christ. The young men lined up and at least three of them stripped down to their shorts. The three laid down in a rubber dinghy filled with water and the chaplain's assistant, Navy corpsman Richard Vaughn, plunged their heads beneath the surface. Smiling, Vaughn baptised them "in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." Dripping wet, Corporal Keith Arguelles beamed after his baptism. "I just wanted to make sure I did this before I headed into the fight," he said on the military base not far from the city of Fallujah.

Posted by Editor at November 6, 2004 11:56 AM