General Patton’s Prayer for Battle Weather (Faith Is Power For You, 1950)

The attached paragraphs tell the story of General Patton’s famous prayer for battle weather – who authored it and how many men recited it.

That prayer [and the accompanying Christmas] greeting were typically Patton. They [read as if they] were [pulled] from the Old Testament rather than the New and had the ring of Joshua and David at their militant best.They were not written for a soft time but for their occasion; they were words to make men strong – and they did.


FDR’s D-Day prayer can be read here

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