D-Day 75th anniversary: How did Americans hear the news of the invasion?
Historians say that President Franklin Roosevelt knew only minutes before the American public did that the invasion of Europe had begun.
"They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph. “Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.
"Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.
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