d day prayer

D Day PrayerBy: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Presentation by: Joshua Childs

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Born on January 30th, 1882

• 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945)

• President during World War II

• Died in office in the year 1945 from a cerebral hemorrhage

D Day• June 6 1944 to August 1944

during World War II (1939-1945)

• Over 155,000 American, British, and Canadian men served in D Day

• Nearly 10,000 casualties and over 4,000 deaths

• This Speech was a prayer to keep the United States soldiers safe and sound and to bring them home safely

Occasion for the prayer:• June 6th, 1944

• Roosevelt wanted to give a prayer to the soldiers of America

• Roosevelt wished to tell the American people what had been going on overseas and going on in war.

Audience:• The People of the United

States

“My Fellow Americans”• The soliders in Normandy

• God

Purpose:• To give Roosevelt's feelings for the troops that are

fighting in war

“I ask that our people devote themselves”

• To tell the people of the United States more on what is going on in the war

“…troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in greater operations.”

• “Almighty God”

- Repetion

• “They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people.”

- Anaphora

• “…give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.”

- Feeling to show he care

Appeals to Pathos

Tone:Serious

- “Some will never return”

Uplifting

- “Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks”

Citations• "D-Day." History.com. A&E Television Networks. Web. 5 Nov.

2015.

• "World War II - D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy - National D-Day Memorial." World War II - D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy - National D-Day Memorial. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.

• "D-Day." Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.