-President Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer
by Dr. D ~ June 7th, 2019
President Trump read FDR’s D-Day Prayer yesterday as part of the 75 year commemoration:
"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 … They will need Thy blessings … For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces… 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 … Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom … And, O Lord, give us Faith. Give us Faith in Thee; Faith in our sons; Faith in each other; Faith in our united crusade … Thy will be done, Almighty God. Amen."
Response: This was a prayer that all Americans could unite around in 1944 and support with prayers of their own. I believe that it does demonstrate how much America has changed since the ‘Greatest Generation.’
Can you imagine how the atheist ‘freedom from religion’ folks would respond today to a president saying- ‘our religion’ and ‘Thy will be done?’ *Top
