U.S. Army veteran Logan Laituri has always called himself a Christian, but only recently came to think hard about what it means to be a Christian and a soldier in Iraq. “I came to see that faith obligates me to non-violence,” said Laituri, whose application for conscientious objector status was kicked around until Laituri’s time in the Army expired. “My commanders said I was aiding the enemies of America.” Laituri served in every dark corner of Iraq. Once in Fallujah, he found a dying soldier under an overturned Humvee, so far gone that no medic would assist him. “For nine nights, I didn’t sleep. I realized there was a great possibility that he died, hearing everybody around him, knowing that nobody came to his aid… Then I got really disturbed, thinking that despite all of the Iraqi bodies I had seen, it took an American soldier – somebody of my own race and creed -- to wake me out of this slumber.”