Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Candidate for Valhalla. As if already choosing his seat in Valhalla, Hitler concluded: "Our one prayer to our Maker will not be that He gives us victory but that He weighs us justly in accordance with our courage, our bravery, our industry and our sacrifices. ... It is our duty to see that we do not weigh too lightly in His eyes, but experience the gracious judgment of victory which means life...
...synagogue's honor roll was defaced with "Jew Boys" scrawled among the names of servicemen. One rabbi had his shingle torn down, his window stoned, his beard yanked by hoodlums as he walked on the street. Another reported that children sneaked into his open synagogue, dumped the prayer books in toilets...
...prayer meeting, and global war gives men little time to sing hymns in front of an altar. But the praying pilot; the nurse who lifted the cup of cold water to my burning lips; the mail truck driver with a chest cough that sounded to me like pneumonia, who nevertheless drove twelve miles out of his way to get a lost kid from Georgia back to his outfit; the girl from Oregon who was hanging curtains at a dust-smothered "basha" to make it look a bit like home to homesick boys; and the wounded from the landing beaches...
Even more arresting was Mayor Edward J. Kelly's proclamation calling upon Chicagoans to "read and study their own Sacred Scriptures." Said Dr. Robert T. Taylor, secretary of the Chicago Bible Society, who presented Mayor Kelly with a Roman Catholic prayer book: "You'd be surprised, how many Bibles there are in City Hall...
...Duties one to four: repetition of the Moslem reed (Allah is Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet), prayer, almsgiving, fasting during the month of Ramadan...