In yesterday’s post on Seth’s Blog, Seth Godin introduced me to an editing tool called wordclouds.com. It’s easy and free to use. Click the ‘word list’ menu and ‘extract words from the text’. You can choose from a CSV, PDF, or Word file and a URL.
I produced a word cloud from two documents, the home page from my website, MindWolves.com, and FDR’s D-Day Prayer, which he gave over a radio address on June 6, 1944. President Roosevelt’s usual “fireside chat” was replaced with a joint prayer with the American people.
The 80th anniversary of World War II’s D-Day passed by this week on June 6, 2024. It seems like outside of Baby Boomers and Gen X’ers (like me), younger generations treat it like just another day on the calendar. There does not appear to be genuine, humble appreciation for what that day signified. Historians often refer to D-Day as the beginning of the end of World War II. Without D-Day, the United States and the world would be very different today. We would be under the rule of Nazi Germany and the perpetuation of the tyranny of Adolf Hitler. Gone would have been the freedoms and liberties we take for granted. The self-evident truths, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness would be no more. Nonetheless, I have a profound respect and appreciation for the “Boys of Gwendahoe” that President Ronald Reagan so eloquently referred to in his 40th anniversary D-Day speech.
“Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their value, and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.
Thank you very much, and God bless you all.”
– President Ronald Reagan (June 6, 1984)
As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt prayed over our nation 80 years ago when there was an existential threat to our way of life, I ask you to join me in prayer for America’s future by listening to FDR’s D-Day Prayer on June 6, 1944 (runtime is only 6 min). He opens his prayer with the following words.
“Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.”
– President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (June 6, 1944)
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