Chapter 47
God spared not the angels that sinned,
But cast them down to hell,
And delivered them into chains of darkness,
To be reserved unto judgment
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2 Peter 2:4
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April 1, 2003
Al-Najaf Airstrip, Najaf, Iraq
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“This one looks pretty good,” Mary drawled in her languid Texas twang. “Any more waiting in the queue?”
Elisabeth glanced up from the bullet she was fishing out of an elderly man’s shoulder just in time to see Corporal DuBois sidle up behind the ‘humor’ of their little three-man operation with an enormous bouquet of alliums, trench coat, boonie-hat, dark sunglasses, and what appeared to be makeup hiding his striped skin.
“Behind you,” Elisabeth said. With a furtive glance, she alerted Lucy to the soap opera about to unfold in their emergency room.
Lucy gave Mary a k
