President's Prayer For Peace

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President Barack Obama stands during the national anthem before placing a commemorative wreath during a ceremony on Memorial Day at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery on May 28, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia.

PRAYER FOR PEACE, MEMORIAL DAY 2012
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

OUR Nation endures and thrives because of the devotion of our men and women in uniform, who, from generation to generation, carry a burden heavier than any we may ever know.

On Memorial Day, we honor those who have borne conflict's greatest cost, mourn where the wounds of war are fresh, and pray for a just, lasting peace. The American fabric is stitched with the stories of sons and daughters who gave their lives in service to the country they loved.

They were patriots who overthrew an empire and sparked revolution. They were courageous men and women who strained to hold a young Union together. They were ordinary citizens who rolled back the creeping tide of tyranny, who stood post through a long twilight struggle, who saw terror and extremism threaten our world's security and said, "I'll go." And though their stories are unique to the challenges they faced, our fallen service members are forever bound by a legacy of valor older than the Republic itself.

Now they lay at rest in quiet corners of our country and the world, but they live on in the families who loved them and in the soul of a Nation that is safer for their service.

Today, we join together in prayer for the fallen. We remember all who have borne the battle, whose devotion to duty has sustained our country and kept safe our heritage as a free people in a free society.

Though our hearts ache in their absence, we find comfort in knowing that their legacy lives on in all of us -- in the security that lets us live in peace, the prosperity that allows us to pursue our dreams, and the love that still beats in those who knew them. May God bless the souls of the venerable warriors we have lost, and may He watch over the men and women who serve us now. Today, tomorrow, and in perpetuity, let us give thanks to them by remaining true to the values and virtues for which they fight.

President Barack Obama lays a wreath in honor of Memorial Day at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, May 28, 2012. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Weekly Address: Honoring Our Fallen Heroes this Memorial Day
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/05/26/weekly-address-honoring-our-fallen-heroes-memorial-day

President Obama shares a message of gratitude with members of the U.S. Armed Forces
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/05/28/broadcasting-message-gratitude

[Jumping John]

1. Peace? The US has been at peace for only 10 yrs since it was founded. If we become a

peaceful nation then who would pay off the congress.

And unemployment would be sky high without the Military Industrial Complex.

And the monies saved from being at war would never be used for the general welfare of the country or her citizens.

"There never was a good war or a bad peace." ~Benjamin Franklin

[emilyg]

2. Prayer is nice - bringing our

men and women home is nicer.

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