[Titus-Maximus]

Sending men into battle is an immense task, and you had better be ready for it.

[dr_lew]

Tonight, as our forces fight, they and their families are in our prayers. May God bless each and every one of them, and the coalition forces at our side in the Gulf, and may He continue to bless our nation, the United States of America.

President George Bush - January 16, 1991

I remembered this invocation, but not by rote. I only remembered the feeling that the question of belief or unbelief was moot at that moment.