Remembering D-Day: A President’s Prayer
On June 6, 1944, a few hours after the invasion began, President Roosevelt spoke on all the radio networks and revealed to the American People what had been a military secret for over a year, the exact date and location of the invasion of Europe. He then asked listeners to join him as he prayed.
Sadly, American culture has changed dramatically since 1944 and Presidents no longer pray in public for fear of a tsunami of sanctimonious blow-back from the ever vigilant harpys of “separation of church and state.”
We could repeat most of Roosevelt’s prayer today, as American troops sweat and bleed in a dozen places around the world to keep us safe from the forces of Islamic Terrorism. Here’s an excerpt:
…these [troops] 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.
Newt Gingrich put together this video, a recording of FDR’s radio announcement and prayer over a series of still photos from D-Day, the World War II Memorial, Iraq and Afghanistan
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Indeed. The President the left claims to most revere would be mercilesly chastised by today’s left.
Roosevelt would not recognize his own party. One could only imagine the nausea he would feel at the notion that Harry Read, John Murtha and Nancy Pelosi are today’s Democratic standard bearors.