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1. D Day Prayer
By: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Presentation by: Joshua Childs

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. Audience:
• The People of the United
States
“My Fellow Americans”
• The soliders in Normandy
• God

6. 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.”

7. • “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

8. Tone:
Serious
- “Some will never return”
Uplifting
- “Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks”

9. 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.