Medallions of Jeanne d' Arc to protect the American soldiers in Iraq…

WASHINGTON (AFP) - an American artist undertook to manufacture and dispatch hundreds of medallions of Jeanne d' Arc in Iraq, in the hope that the small French shepherdess protects the American soldiers. “Our soldiers fall under the bombs, and they do not have an armour. I wondered what I could send to them to protect them, and Jeanne asserted herself”, explains Pat Benincasa, 55 years.
“Jeanne d' Arc crosses the borders, the nations, the History, and it speaks with each one among us. She put her faith as a God to achieve the impossible one”, continues this specialist in the sacred art, installed in Minnesota (northern). Even if the mission of the small shepherdess were to drive out an occupying army its country, it remains “one beating, a soldate” in which them American troops in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere can have confidence, ensures the artist.
A chaplain of the American army in Iraq already placed order of 500 medals to him, and since it launched its project at the beginning of April, it regularly receives requests of close relations of soldiers, explains she. The medal, worked out by the artist starting from a giant table on which it has worked for two years, represents Jeanne in armour, on a horse with the gallop.
Currently in the course of reproduction, the first specimens will be dispatched in the next weeks.
Pat Benincasa launched the project on its economies, and invites on its Internet site the goodwills to extend it by financing the manufacture and the sending of batches of 50 (240 dollars) or 100 medals (456 dollars).

Don't they thus know what arrived at Jeanne d' Arc, said the Maid of Orleans? These poor soldiers must make to a war, not justified, far from on their premises, their families, their friends… they do not deserve to undergo the same fate as Jeanne d' Arc, namely to perish to burn sharp on a bucher!
Moreover, Jeanne d' Arc tried to release her country against the invader (some… Britanniques!), whereas the American army would rather have the role of invader in Iraq….