[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15859]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, early Founders of the Nation on this day in 1777 adopted a 
flag to symbolize their solidarity in defense and in belief of a new 
type of Republic. They selected stars and stripes to speak both of 
colonial individuality as State rights drawn upon a broader field of 
Federal identity. Our Pledge as a people means even more in today's 
world on this Flag Day.
  Lord, fill us with promising hope and peaceful unity as we stare at 
the starry sky. Enable us to reach out further and further in the broad 
bands of freedom and compassion to fellow citizens of this world most 
in need.
  Lord, may this flag, before which we stand, be a mirror of this 
people and a sign of promise to others that equal justice under 
governing law assures progressive victory over egoism and evil, both in 
times of prosperity and adversity, in times of war, and peace.
  In our allegiance we witness to ``one Nation under God'' as a promise 
of what others in this world can yet become. For this, we Americans 
stand together today, proud and strong, both now and forever. Amen.

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