![]() "If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name." I am fortunate to live in a country where war is a distant event, only made real by friends and family who have or currently do serve. The crucible of war and battle is a challenge I can only imagine. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” - General Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. This makes the words penned in 1632 by Renaissance poet Francis Quarles particularly poignant today: Our God and soldier we alike adore Ev'n at the brink of danger, not before After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted."It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. for us at home-fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them-help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice." Regrettably, it is also part of the human condition to quickly forget the need for prayer once we perceive that a threat has passed and "normalcy" has been restored. Roosevelt's prayer for America in the opening salvos of D-day is a beautiful example: ". George Washington and Abraham Lincoln both prayed publicly for the nation. Confronted with terrible evil, Americans have sought divine help before. “Sometimes it takes a terrible tragedy for people to see their need for God.
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