[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 182 (Friday, October 23, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H5703]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff, U.S. Navy, Retired, Washington, D.C., 
offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, we pray, reflect in different ways but together mourn 
our dead and tell their stories to keep their memories alive.
  Thirty-seven years ago today, I was in Beirut when a terrorist truck-
bomb attack took the lives of 241 U.S. military personnel. Fifty-eight 
French troops died a heartbeat later: a second truck, another deadly 
blast.
  They came in peace. They risked their lives to buy some time for 
change. Peace did not prevail, but their risk, their sacrifice must be 
honored and remembered. Their story must be told.
  Today, as we recall and honor Beirut dead and Beirut vets in a 
special way, we mourn all those we have lost to war, to hatred, and 
disease as well.
  Lord, may we heed Your call: together, to choose life--to work for, 
fight for life: a better life for those who one day will remember us.
  And may we say amen.

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