This is the prayer originally entitled “Let Our Hearts Be Stout” written by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Allied troops were invading German-occupied Europe during World War II. The prayer was read to the nation on radio on the evening of D-Day, June 6, 1944, while American, British and Canadian troops were fighting to establish beach heads on the coast of Normandy in France.
The previous night, June 5, the President had also been on the radio to announce that Allied troops had entered Rome. The spectacular news that Rome had been liberated was quickly surpassed by news of the gigantic D-Day invasion which began at 6:30 a.m. on June 6. By midnight about 57,000 American and 75,000 British and Canadian soldiers had gotten ashore. Allied losses on D-Day included 2,500 killed and 8,500 wounded.
His prayer can be read and heard here. Listen to President Roosevelt 65 years ago today.
Can you imagine this prayer being written and recited by Barack Hussein Obama? He’s the first American president since National Prayer Day was first inaugurated by President Harry Truman, to give it the back of his hand. He issued a written memo but said not a word about this historic commemoration. Maybe if it was a celebration of Ramadan it would register with him.
Why can’t we have leadership like that in America today? It truly was the Greatest Generation.
Yes, at the Cemetery Meuse Argonne there are 14,246 Americans buried as you indicated with the photo. I was glad you included that fact which I saw when I moved my cursor over the photo.
We also lost 9386 young American lives at Normandy. They are interred in the cemetery in Normandy, France. Much American blood has been shed for freedom. Honor that by using your vote wisely.
The mention of God, faith and prayer were not dirty words to Democrats in previous generations. How did they lose their way?