[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 98 (Friday, July 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5133]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We are grateful as individuals and as a people that we live without 
the threat of war and without the threat of conquest and we are at 
peace. O gracious God, as we express our gratitude for the security we 
enjoy, we remember those men and women of our Armed Forces who in peace 
or war protect the welfare of all citizens. May they see in their 
mission as peacemakers a ministry to the people of our land and may 
Your blessing, O God, that is new every morning be with them and their 
families now and evermore. Amen.

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