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Memorial/Decoration Day (last Monday of May)
![]() ![]() Invocation for a Memorial Day ceremony at the Washington DC Vietnam War Veterans Memorial. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() A prayer for the observance of Memorial Day in the United States. . . . ![]() ![]() Invocation for a virtual Memorial Day ceremony at the Washington DC Vietnam War Veterans Memorial. . . . ![]() ![]() A prayer offered by Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff at the Vietnam War Memorial on Memorial Day May 28th 2018. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Stephen Roth on 29 May 2014![]() ![]() ![]() The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 May 2014. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld on 23 May 2014![]() ![]() ![]() The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 23 May 2014. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() A prayer for Memorial Day in the United States, composed in 1954. . . . Prayer for the United States during the Cold War, by Julius Klein (Jewish War Veterans of the USA, 1951)![]() ![]() This prayer by Brigadier General Julius Klein was included in the anthology, The Prayer Book of the Armed Forces (ed. Daniel A. Poling, 1951), p. 47. The anthology notes that “Accompanying the prayer of General Klein, National Commander of Jewish War Veterans, U.S.A., is this message: ‘I wish to express the deep-seated conviction that this book of prayers will be warmly received by a world which is very much in need of closer contact with God.’” . . . ![]() A prayer for peace from the end of World War II. . . . “That America’s Heroes Shall Not Have Died in Vain” with a special El Malé Raḥamim prayer for Memorial Day, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1945)![]() ![]() ![]() A service and prayer for Memorial Day in the United States, containing a variation of El Malé Raḥamim, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan. . . . |