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Columbus Dispatch: Congressman Wants Prayer Added to National Monument

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Date: June 1, 2011
Issues: Arts, Entertainment, and History

By Jessica Wehrman

A Marietta congressman wants to have the prayer read by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the American people as U.S. troops were storming the beaches of Normandy added to the national World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Johnson, a Republican, along with Reps. Steve Stiver, R-Columbus and Tim Ryan, D-Niles, introduced a bill Wednesday that would require the Secretary of the Interior to place a plaque at the World War II monument or inscribe onto the memorial the prayer. It would give the secretary discretion on where to place the prayer.

"This is just a way of paying honor and tribute to the great Americans who gave their lives in World War II," Johnson said.

Roosevelt read the prayer to the country over the radio on the evening of D-Day, June 6, 1944, while American, British and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy in northern France.


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