Omaha Beach...
Posted on 06/06/2007 6:55:40 AM PDT by kidkosmic1
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56031
This is probably a John Edwards primping in the mirror-level vanity, but it really is in the news today...honest!
Thanks to our U.S. troops...this is for them.
Excerpt:
From another era, an unwavering voice speaks slowly, its gravity punctuated by ministerial pauses: "Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. ..."
It was June 6, 1944, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt first addressed a nation beset by war. While American, British and Canadian troops fought to establish beachheads on the coast of Normandy in France, American families adjusted their radio dials to hear the president pray.
Now, exactly 53 years later, Roosevelt's voice once again speaks, this time to a nation divided over a war.
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Thank you for posting this. I was just listening to it on the radio. Very moving and inspirational. God Bless Our President, God Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform, and God Bless America.
You are welcome. I know there was a big push at Newt.org to get radio stations to play the audio. I hope the prayer gets wide coverage today....
Well, not only did Newt (via newt.org) make a push for the D-Day Prayer to be read, but his org ripped off my video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUy1ejRq9RE
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