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[[File:Foxhole.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Reverend William T. Cummings is famous for declaring ''There are no atheists in foxholes''.<ref name="listserv">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609D&L=ads-l&P=15696</ref>]]
 
[[File:Foxhole.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Reverend William T. Cummings is famous for declaring ''There are no atheists in foxholes''.<ref name="listserv">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609D&L=ads-l&P=15696</ref>]]
 
Reverend William T. Cummings, who served at Bataan, is famous for declaring "'''There are no atheists in foxholes'''."<ref name="listserv">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609D&L=ads-l&P=15696</ref>  In addition, Lieutenant Colonel Warren J. Clear, who also served at Bataan, used the expression in an
 
Reverend William T. Cummings, who served at Bataan, is famous for declaring "'''There are no atheists in foxholes'''."<ref name="listserv">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609D&L=ads-l&P=15696</ref>  In addition, Lieutenant Colonel Warren J. Clear, who also served at Bataan, used the expression in an
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interview printed in U.S. newspapers in the middle of April.<ref name="listserv">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609D&L=ads-l&P=15696</ref>   
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interview printed in U.S. newspapers in the middle of April.<ref name="listserv">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609D&L=ads-l&P=15696</ref>  The origin of the phrase is unknown.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20080617035633/http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609D&L=ads-l&P=15696 Discussion on Linguist List]". Archived from [http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609D&L=ads-l&P=15696 the original] on 17 June 2008.</ref>
    
Chaplain F.W. Lawson of the 302d Machine Gun Battalion, who was wounded twice in wartime, declared "I doubt if there is such a thing as an [[Atheism|atheist]]. At least there isn't in a front line trench."<ref name="listserv" /> Hannah More wrote: "In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God."<ref>[http://christian-quotes.ochristian.com/Hannah-More-Quotes/ Hannah More quotes]</ref>
 
Chaplain F.W. Lawson of the 302d Machine Gun Battalion, who was wounded twice in wartime, declared "I doubt if there is such a thing as an [[Atheism|atheist]]. At least there isn't in a front line trench."<ref name="listserv" /> Hannah More wrote: "In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God."<ref>[http://christian-quotes.ochristian.com/Hannah-More-Quotes/ Hannah More quotes]</ref>
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