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Posted on 06/05/2008 9:08:43 PM PDT by jazusamo
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FDR and Churchill would be charged with a hate crime today, especially in the UK.
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.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.
They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest — until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men’s souls will be shaken with the violences of war.
For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.
Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.
And for us at home — fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them — help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.
Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.
Give us strength, too — strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.
And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.
And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keeness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment — let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.
With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace — a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.
Thy will be done, Almighty God.
Amen.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - June 6, 1944
“finest military force the world has ever seen”
That is true of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Amen!
Thank you, Bender2.
After his death in 1971, I found inside his wallet, a faded copy of FDR's prayer my Father had cut from a newspaper. So, that is why I know the prayer so well.
MESS WITH THE BEST, DIE WITH THE REST
Interesting and touching story, thanks for relating it.
We all owe a great deal to your later Father and the hundreds of thousands like him. I doubt there’s many of us over 55 or so that didn’t have at least one relative in WWII, I had several but only one living now.
Good for her and our thanks to her. I’ve been married to a WAC for over forty years, I guess I’m prejudiced in favor of women in the military. :)
Most folks in DC are nauseating.
If you are killed or injured in an invasion or even training for one, you have paid an enormous price for your country. If you weren't killed or wounded, there is one salient point. Compared to most of the Pacific invasions and, for that matter, the Battle of Normandy that followed, D-Day was a cake walk.
BUMP!
Oliver North served his country well and continues to. He’s one of the few journalists I’m not skeptical of when reading about our military and government.
Holy cow, that guy’s arm is huge.
Also, if the same MSM was around then the report would be that 367 civilians were killed during the invasion ..... no mention of our troops ....
I have to feel a little sorry for the Taliban who had to face a couple of hundred like him.......NAH!LOL.
Thank you for a great post. I pasted it into my D-Day file. Here is a D-Day I always like to relate.
On the night of June 5, 23,400 American and British paratroopers dropped behind the D-Day beaches from 2395 aircraft and 867 gliders. This air assault was attempted just 17 years after Charles Lindberg flew across the Atlantic for the first time. To the last moment Ike’s air commander Leigh-Mallory saw only tragedy from air assault, predicting hundreds of planes and gliders would be lost, and surviving paratroopers would be isolated and killed. He had specific intelligence the German 9tst Air Landing Division, specialists in fighting paratroopers, and the 6th Parachute Regiment had inexplicably moved into the area around St. Mere-Eglise, where the American divisions were to land. Ike remained strategically committed, but compassionately devoted to the men.
The evening before D-Day, Eisenhower left SHAEF headquarters at 6 PM, traveling to Newbury where the 101st Airborne was boarding for its first combat assignment. Ike arrived at 8 PM and did not leave until the last C-47 was airborne.
In My Three Years with Eisenhower Captain Harry C. Butcher says, “We saw hundreds of paratroopers with blackened and grotesque faces, packing up for the big hop and jump. Ike wandered through them, stepping over, packs, guns, and a variety of equipment such as only paratroop people can devise, chinning with this and that one. All were put at ease. He was promised a job after the war by a Texan who said he roped, not dallied, his cows, and at least there was enough to eat in the work. Ike has developed or disclosed an informality and friendliness with troopers that almost amazed me”.
In Crusade in Europe Dwight D. Eisenhower says, “I found the men in fine fettle, many of them joshingly admonishing me that I had no cause for worry, since the 101st was on the job and everything would be taken care of in fine shape. I stayed with them until the last of them were in the air, somewhere about midnight. After a two hour trip back to my own camp, I had only a short time to wait until the first news should come in”.
One of the first D-Day reports was from Air Chief Marshall Leigh-Mallory with news only 29 of 1,250 C-47’s were missing and only four gliders were unaccounted for. That morning Leigh-Mallory sent Ike a message frankly saying it is sometimes difficult to admit that one is wrong, but he had never had a greater pleasure than in doing so on this occasion. He congratulated Ike on the wisdom of his command decision.
I have no time for those who dismiss Dwight D. Eisenhower as merely a political general.
Hoo Ahh! Now that’s some Ink even I’d wear!
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