Today offer a prayer for those who served and gave the ultimate sacrifice - pray also for their families and finally pray for peace throughout the world.

“Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor.”  (George H. W. Bush)

Reflect on John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Field”,

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.  (John Alexander McCrae, 1915)

Listen to TAPS as you pray for those who made your prayer life possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9xNoEu3O8c

May God Be Praised and May God Bless America and the World.