Our ship carried 24 tanks and 200 Canadian troops. Royal British Legion's service of remembrance at the Bayeux. If you’d like to support this monumental effort, please donate now.įriends is a registered 501(c)(3) charity. We landed on Juno Beach at 07.30 and as soon as the big ramp went down, which was lowered before we hit the beach, we saw our men dying. It records the names of 22,442 servicemen and women killed on D-Day and at the Battle of Normandy. The D-Day Prayer will be a free-standing element within the restored Circle of Remembrance with the bronze plaque held by granite piers, providing material continuity and lighter feeling.įriends anticipates a Jdedication of the FDR D-Day Prayer Plaque addition. This will be an important and meaningful addition to the Memorial, which is visited by more than 5 million people each year, providing a contemplative space to reflect on and to remember the more than 400,000 American souls lost during World War II.
This effort will complete the World War II Memorial, and the additional programming - both onsite and online – will explore the stories of the everyday men and, in particular, the women, of all backgrounds, who served and without whom victory would not have been possible. will allow Friends to complete this effort, begun I 2015, to add President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer to the World War II Memorial, restore the “Circle of Remembrance” – the area where the prayer will be placed, and to develop interpretative programming. Therefore, Friends took on the responsibility of designing and funding the project.Ī $2 million grant by Lilly Endowment Inc. The legislation stipulated that no federal funds could be used to implement this directive. In 2014, President Barack Obama signed into law the World War II Memorial Prayer Act (Public Law 113-123) directing that the prayer be added to the World War II Memorial. when it was completed and dedicated in 2004. However, President Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer was not included on the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. in WWII and which we so badly need to revive." It's a reminder of the spirit of unity that defined the U.S. rebuilt Europe and protects it to this day.6 June 1944 was - to my mind - America's finest hour, the peak of its moral authority, and FDR's prayer the most unifying, most moving articulation of all that the world admired and respected about the U.S.'s mission.
mission in WWII - 'they fight not for the lust of conquest.they fight to liberate.' Liberate they did - those boys drawn from the ways of 'peace' and ‘democracy’. It beautifully encapsulated the Allied and U.S. "Of all FDR's radio broadcasts I believe it was the most powerful - it united every American in their will to win, to support the war effort, to sacrifice. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.”įriends Board member and New York Times bestselling author Alex Kershaw says of FDR's D-Day Prayer:
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“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.
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