{"id":42646,"date":"2017-06-06T20:05:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T02:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42646"},"modified":"2017-06-06T20:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T02:31:15","slug":"d-day-seventy-three-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/d-day-seventy-three-years-ago-today.html","title":{"rendered":"D-Day. Seventy-three years ago today."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Normandy<\/a>
At the principal American cemetery in Normandy
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IF EVER PROOF WERE NEEDED THAT WE FOUGHT FOR A CAUSE AND NOT FOR CONQUEST, IT COULD BE FOUND IN THESE CEMETERIES. \u00a0HERE WAS OUR ONLY CONQUEST: ALL WE ASKED . . . WAS ENOUGH . . . SOIL IN WHICH TO BURY OUR GALLANT DEAD.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

General Mark W. Clark<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m embarrassed to say that, despite my having spent a several days\u00a0in Normandy just a couple of weeks ago, studying and thinking about and visiting sites connected with the event, I very nearly forgot the anniversary of D-Day, which is . . . today.<\/p>\n

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Mainly because I\u2019ve lost track of the date.<\/p>\n

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In any event, here\u2019s something to commemorate it:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/slideshows\/d-day-june-6-1944-world-war-2-photos#50<\/a><\/p>\n

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And, once again \u2014 you can listen to it here<\/a> \u2014 I call your attention to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s famous D-Day prayer:<\/p>\n

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June 6, 1944<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2019s souls will be shaken with the violences of war.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And for us at home \u2014 fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas \u2014 whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them\u2013help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Give us strength, too \u2014 strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Thy will be done, Almighty God.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Amen.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Posted from Richmond, Virginia<\/p>\n

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