We often hear the phrase, "There are no atheists in foxholes." Those who have been there know this isn't true:
Why do some continue to claim that there are no atheists in foxholes when we know they cry for their Momma not for god?A Young Warrior’s Last Thought is for Mother
In her book Year of the Comets, Jan Deblieu shares a conversation she had with her husband, Jeff, depressed as his mother lay dying of cancer:
’I heard somewhere,’ Jeff said, ‘that soldiers dying on the battlefield cry out for their mothers. People walking through the carnage at Normandy heard grown men calling out ‘Mommy!’ He shook his head. ‘Calling not for their girlfriends or wives, but for their mothers.’
Decades later, Normandy survivors attest to still hearing such cries. As emotional D-Day veteran Frank Devito noted in a 2014 interview with Tom Brokaw commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, “You know there’s a fallacy people think that when a man is dying. They don’t ask for God. The last word they say before they die is ‘Momma.’”
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