Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taps & Drums. Next day-Armistice Day-the three heads of state motored to Arlington Cemetery. It was raw and windy. As the motorcade entered the cemetery, the 21-gun presidential salute from three 755 boomed out over the Virginia hills. After a minute of silent prayer, each of the three men laid a wreath of chrysanthemums on the marble sarcophagus of the Unknown Soldier. Taps sounded, and the roll of muffled drums. There were no speeches...
Like most other soldiers, he knew terrible fear. He conquered it with prayer. During the fighting on Guam and Leyte he became famous among the hardbitten men of the 77th Division for his serene recklessness in the face of death. In the nerve-racking weeks of the Okinawa campaign, his fame grew...
...march from their grey stone barracks at Annapolis next week to hear handsome, ur bane Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch open the ceremonies celebrating the U.S. Naval Academy's 100th year. There will be light moments, a "hop" in Dahlgren Hall. But essentially it will be an occasion for prayer ful thought both in the Chapel and the Administration Building next door...
Next week, as he has for many years, the chaplain will intone his special prayer for the Academy: "Almighty God . . . give thy grace to all those to whom the management of its affairs and the instruction of its members are confided...
...last morning, as they gathered for Communion at a bare table, a loaf of bread was passed around for each to break, an earthen Communion cup for all to drink from. The final prayer of the "hungry men" of Kirkridge: that they might achieve "a new, hardbitten, humble dedication to neglected but crucial tasks...