* Almighty God,
We commend to your gracious care
and keeping all the men and women
of our armed forces at home and abroad.
Defend them day by day with your
heavenly grace; strengthen them in
their trials and temptations; give them
courage to face the perils which beset
them; and grant them a sense of your
abiding presence wherever they maybe;
Amen.
* The Episcopal Church
