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Prayer on Veterans Day

Dear Lord Jesus Christ,
those whom we honor today
are examples of your words:
"Greater love than this no one has:
that he lay down his life for his friends."
They gave up their loves in the defense of freedom for their loved ones and their country.

Teach me to appreciate the virtue of
patriotism --
a true and Christian love of country.
Let me love my country not to follow it blindly but to make it the land of goodness that it should be.
Let patriotism be such
that it will not exclude the other nations of the world but include them in a powerful love of country that has room for all others too.