Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter what the problems and prejudices that may lie ahead, we Americans with Japanese faces will not falter, but will glory in our work of building America as the nation of nations. And to those named above, may God bless their devotion and loyalty to their fellow men and to their country...
...Bless the Corporal. "Between all this work and discussion, I can assure you my sins and omissions loomed very large. They only had the effect of making me sure I was in no position to meet my Maker. My prayers were most earnest. I asked Corporal Dorfman (this was his first flight) whether he was saying his prayers and he said he had been praying for two hours. He asked me to write something on his khaki trousers. We had written on all our trousers phone instructions to follow when we landed, and I wrote the only thing that came...
Then, shaking toward the boats drops of holy water from a silver aspergillum, the Archbishop read the blessing: "Deign. 0 Lord, to hear our supplications and bless these ships . . . and all who sail therein. . . . Extend to them Thy right hand as Thou didst to Peter walking upon the sea, and send Thy holy angel from Heaven to protect and guard them from every danger...
...down and wrote a letter to a soldier in Germany: "Dear Brother: A job well done. . . . There will be no celebrating for me till you come home. . . . Then we will put it on good. I have waited for this day a long time. Till we meet again. God bless you and all the world...
...Guadalcanal. Then they gave it to the Americans in gratitude for driving out the Japanese. The presentation was made by a barefoot Christian native wearing a loincloth, who said: ''We have worked hard and we hope you like this church. And we pray that God will bless all of you and we hope you will pray for your friends who are lying in this cemetery. . . . Now we give this church to you. But this church no belong to you and me. This church belong...