Survival and Death in a Faraway War
“I was going to die. … And I was thinking about God and his Prophet… ,” Aliou Diakhate recalled in the historian Joe Lunn’s “Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War.” “And when you wish to pray you have to stand up – to stand and bend down on your knees, and put your forehead on the ground. But I could not do that [because I was wounded so badly]. So I took some earth in my hand and I put it to my forehead. And I prayed to God [to bless me] in that way.”
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