Posted on 11/03/2011 7:45:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Obama administration is opposing legislation that would add President Franklin Roosevelt's D-Day prayer to the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C.
At a House hearing Thursday, Robert Abbey, director of the Bureau of Land Management, said a plaque or inscription of the prayer that Roosevelt read on a radio broadcast to the nation on June 6, 1944, would "dilute" the memorial's central message....
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I imagine Barry is afraid we’ll “offend” certain people again after we already “offended” them when we kicked their asses in WWII. Maybe he and his commie ‘RATs will suggest that we replace the prayer with an apology.
I’m sure most Japanese, Italians or Germans couldn’t care less what we put on our war memorials. They have statues and markers for the SS, fascists, Tojo and Kamikazes and we don’t interfere in their culture.
Central message?? How much more central can we get than,”Almighty Father,our sons, pride of our nation,this day have embarked upon a mighty endeavor.” ?
Central message?? How much more central can we get than,”Almighty Father,our sons, pride of our nation,this day have embarked upon a mighty endeavor.” ?
Who in hell put the head of the Bureau of Land Management in charge of this? Didn’t anyone have the sense to ask him if it was his own decision, or if he was taking orders from someone else?
http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odddayp.html
It makes no mention of Jesus or anything that would indicate Christian, or God of Abraham, or anything like that.
Maybe he is a question mark Unitarian after all?
The prayer is a bit long (over 6 minutes). Good sentiment though not up to Churchill.
But the point is Barry will have none of it. That way he can usher in sharia much easier.
And how long does it take to say Lincoln’s Second Inaugural address?
But what amazes me is this talk about going against the “central message.” The liberation of Europe from Nazism was his greatest achievement.
It is longer than anyone would read at a memorial, maybe excerpt This part:
“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.”
Just enough to piss off Athiests, Muslims and Communists.
Well, the Second Inaugural is one of the prayers carved on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial. But I take your point. What amazed me is the stupidly of the director’s comments. He is blinded by his own ambition.
FDR was a religious man, to what extent I do not know.
Is it centralized government, rather than God, is the supreme power?
If the full prayer is too long, the excerpts posted in this thread seem workable.
“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 good will among all Thy people. “
Franklin Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer
June 6, 1944
My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.
And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:
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 good will 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 keenness 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 arrogancies. 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.
This is just another reason why Obama is likely Muslim.
If he was just a socialist idiot, I would expect him to ok the prayer, since it was from THE Franklin D. Roosevelt.
I can’t wait until there is an Obama Memorial. Then we can debate about what prayers should or should not go on it.
What a bunch of prejudiced individuals this whole group is. Jump on this and mention it throughout the campaigns. Let people know how un American and anti Christian these POS traitors are.
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