If I’m not mistaken, during World War II every member of the U.S. military was given a Bible, and I think the Bibles were Goverment Issue.
FGS, didn't FDR give Christmastime "fireside chats" and symbolically "turn the lights on" at that Cross in San Fran?
What a world.
You could take a staunch, ultra-liberal democrat who died in 1962 and transport him to 2013, and he'd never stop puking over what America has become and tolerated.
During WWII Churchill and FDR met on the HMS Prince of Wales for an Atlantic conference.
On Sunday they attended religious services on board the ship. Churchill selected the hymns. One of them was “Onward Christian Soldiers”. I have seen old film of the service and both Churchill and FDR were singing along with the men.
Churchill later remarked that less than a year later, most of those young sailors would be dead.
True...I have my Dad’s.
An interesting questions. I remember that the Gideons gave me a small pocket New Testament at the reception station at Ft. Knox, when I entered basic training in 1973.
Army Chaplains still have Bibles for distribution to soldiers who want one. At least as of a couple of months ago, they did. I don’t know if there are any recent changes to that.