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Show Piety After Slaughter. The familiar story of the sharpshooter sharp-shooter who said after each shot, "And may the Lord have mercy on your soul!" is matched by an incident described de-scribed in Ian Malcolm's book, "War Pictures Behind the Lines." "The captain cap-tain of our guns," says the narrative, "was a priest; his altar a few empty cartridge boxes. . . . First of all he told us to pray for all for whom te was going to offer the mass. Then he added. 'Particularly I recommend to your prayers the artillerymen whom we have just destroyed,' and he recited the 'De Profundis.' " |