for our nation’s fallen in all wars

john mccrae, 1915

T H E L O R D ’ S D A Y

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T R I N I T Y P R E S B Y T E R I A N C H U R C H

M O N T G O M E R Y, A L A B A M A

The plaque below hangs in the Narthex in honor of the men and women from Trinity Presbyterian Church who served their country

in World War II and in memory of those who made thesupreme sacrifice. The inscription at the bottom of the plaque reads,

“let those that come after see that they are held in hallowed memory.”

hugh peagler adamsjohn norman albrittonfrederick page boswelljohn minor carotherswilliam t. degolyerh. gayle stubbsjames webb dubose

john bethea strafford jr.val casselschanning elmore traffordherman w. ohmew. h. reynoldsray rankin rossell, jr.osborne sims rainer, jr.

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• Congregation, please stand as able

The Prelude Patriotic Medley Dr. Dennis Herrick, trumpet Mrs. Elizabeth V. Arnold, organ

The Striking of the Hour

• The Massing of the Colours Highland Cathedral Charles Callahan

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

JOHN 15:13

“Long years ago, as earth lay dark and still, rose a loud cry upon a lonely hill,

while in the frailty of our human clay, Christ, our Redeemer, passed the self same way.

Still stands His Cross from that dread hour to this, like some bright star above the dark abyss;

Still, through the veil, the Victor’s pitying eyes look down to bless our lesser Calvaries.”

JOHN S. ARKWRIGHT

“Not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions,

but there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them,

graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.”

PERICLES

A SERVICE OF WORSHIP, REMEMBRANCE AND REFLECTION

H H H H H

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• The Hymn My Country ‘Tis of Thee america

My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride,

From ev’ry mountainside, let freedom ring.

My native country thee, land of the noble free, thy name I love;I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills,

My heart with rapture thrills, like that above.

Let music swell the breeze, and ring through all the trees sweet freedom’s song;Let mortal tongues awake, let all that breathe partake,

Let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong.

Our fathers’ God to Thee, author of liberty, to Thee we sing;Long may our land be bright with freedom’s holy light,

Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King.

• The Invocation The Reverend Claude E. McRoberts, III Senior Minister, Trinity Presbyterian Church

The Confession of Our Sin (in unison)

Most holy and merciful Father, we acknowledge and confess in Your presence this day the sinfulness of our hearts and of our ways. We are not worthy of the sufferings of those who laid down their lives, for we have forgotten their sacrifice and have misused the freedom they preserved for us. Above all, O God, we have sinned against You, for we have lived unto ourselves, rather than unto Christ Who for our sakes died and rose again. Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those that trespass against us, and deliver us from evil, and grant us Your peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Scripture Lesson Matthew 28:16-20 Page 1062 in the Pew Bible

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• The Hymn Medley America the Beautiful materna

O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain;For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!

America! America! God shed His grace on thee,And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern impassioned stress

A thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness!America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw

Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law!

O Valiant Hearts ellers

O valiant hearts who to your glory cameThrough dust of conflict and through battle flame;

Tranquil you lie, your knightly virtue proved,Your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

O risen Lord, O Shepherd of our dead,Whose cross has brought them and Whose staff had led,

In glorious hope their proud and sorrowing landCommits her children to Thy gracious hand.

The Address SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE Colonel John A. Eidsmoe

John Eidsmoe is a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel, retired Alabama State Defense Force Colonel, Chaplain (Colonel) with the Mississippi State Guard, and a graduate of

both the Air Command and Staff College and the Air War College. He is Professor of Law at the Oak Brook College of Law and Government Policy, He holds seven academic degrees

in law, theology, history, and political science, and has published sixteen books. John has served as Senior Staff Attorney with the Alabama Supreme Court and is currently Senior

Counsel for the Foundation for Moral Law. He is an ordained pastor with the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations and pastors two rural Alabama churches. He and his wife,

Marlene, have three children and three grandchildren.

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• The National Anthem

O! say can you see by the dawn’s early lightWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming.

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming.

And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

O! say does that star-spangled banner yet waveO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

The Prayer for Our Nation Lieutenant Colonel Ralph W. Burks III, ALANG, Ret.

The Remarks about the Collection

The Collection for the Alabama National Guard Foundation, Inc. The Offertory Anthem For the Fallen: They Shall Grow Not Old Binyon/Rojek Men’s Choir Steve Lee, Director

The Laying of Wreaths in Memory of Our Heroic Dead

IN MEMORY OF THE MAYFLOWER IMMIGRANTSMs. Anne Travis Kilgrow

Alabama Mayflower Society—

IN MEMORY OF THE PILGRIM IMMIGRANTSMrs. Bruce A. Buehler

National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Alabama Branch —

IN MEMORY OF THE JAMESTOWNE SETTLERSMrs. James L. Wolfe

Jamestowne Society, Alabama Company—

IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO FOUGHT IN THE COLONIAL WARS 1607-1775Mrs. Stanley Blakely Winslow

Nicholas Meriwether Chapter Daughters of American Colonists

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IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO FOUGHT IN THE COLONIAL WARS 1607-1775 Ms. Marie Barber Sanford

Governor James Moore, Jr. Chapter, Daughters of American Colonists—

IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO FOUGHT IN THE COLONIAL WARS AND FOUNDED THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mrs. John C. Mathews, Jr.The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama

—IN MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN THAT FOUNDED

THE COLONY OF VIRGINIA BY 1699Suzanna Etheridge Rawlins, Governor General

Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers—

IN MEMORY OF THE EARLY HUGUENOT SETTLERS IN AMERICAMrs. Thomas R. Shanks

Alabama Huguenot Society—

IN MEMORY OF THE EARLY HUGUENOT SETTLERS IN AMERICAMrs. Thomas R. Shanks

The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin—

IN MEMORY OF OFFICERS OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY WHO DIED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Henry Hamilton Hutchinson, III, 1st Lt., USARAlabama Association of the Society of the Cincinnati

—IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO FOUGHT IN THE COLONIAL WARS

OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURYMrs. Bruce A. Buehler

Benjamin Fenn Chapter, Colonial Dames XVII Century

IN MEMORY OF GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY AND ALL WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Col. Larry P. Cornwell; Mr. Joe Pickett; Lt. Col. Thomas Smith IIIGeneral Richard Montgomery Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution

—IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Mr. Allen Herrod, Compatriot; Mr. Richard Wells, CompatriotGeneral John Archer Elmore Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution

—IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO SERVED IN THE CONTINENTAL FORCES

IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONMrs. Stanley Blakely Winslow

Anne Phillips Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution

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IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO SERVED IN THE CONTINENTAL FORCES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Mrs. Samuel Russell Atagi Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution

—IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO SERVED IN THE MILITIA IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Mrs. Robert M. Cheney Francis Marion Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution

—IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO SERVED IN THE MILITIA IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Mrs. Arnold Burris Captain William Bibb Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution

—IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO SERVED IN THE CONTINENTAL FORCES

IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONMrs. Michael Laron Scott

Peter Forney Chapter, Alabama Society, Daughters of the American Revolution—

IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO FOUGHT IN THE WAR OF 1812Mrs. Angie T. Mitchell

General Patrick May Chapter, National Society, United States Daughters of 1812—

IN MEMORY OF ALL CONFEDERATES WHO FOUGHT IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATESMrs. Steve Martin

Cradle of the Confederacy, Chapter #94, United Daughters of the Confederacy—

IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO SERVED DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATESMr. Harold Y. Grooms, Lt. Commander

Prattville Dragoons, Camp #1524, Sons of Confederate Veterans—

IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO SERVED DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATESMr. Phillip Barry Leach, Sr., Camp Commander; Mr. William E. Hudson, Camp Adjutant

Thomas Goode Jones Camp 259, Sons of Confederate Veterans—

IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO SERVED DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATESMr. John H. Land, Camp Commander

Capt. Henry C. Semple Camp 2002, Sons of Confederate Veterans—

IN MEMORY OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WARMajor (ret) Bruce A. Buehler

Major General James H. Wilson Camp, Sons of Union Veterans—

IN MEMORY OF WOMEN WHO SUPPORTED CONFEDERATE SOLDIERSSuzanna Etheridge Rawlins Order of the Steel Magnolias

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• The Minute of Silence

• Taps Dr. Dennis Herrick, trumpet

• The Anthem Mansions of the Lord Glennie-Smith/Wallace

To fallen soldiers let us sing, where no rockets fly nor bullets wing,Our broken brothers let us bring to the mansions of the Lord.

No more bleeding, no more fight, no prayers pleading through the night,Just divine embrace, eternal light in the mansions of the Lord.

Where no mothers cry and no children weep, We will stand and guard though the angels sleep,

All through the ages safely keep the mansions of the Lord.

• The Benediction

• The Postlude Variations on America Dr. W. Volckmar

IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO SERVED DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATESMrs. Thomas E. Jaworowski

The Ladies Memorial Association of Montgomery—

IN MEMORY OF ALL MILITARY OFFICERS WHO HAVE SERVED IN ALL WARSColonel (Retired) Joseph F. Decker II, Chapter President

Montgomery Area Chapter, Military Officers Association of America—

IN MEMORY OF ALL MILITARY OFFICERS WHO HAVE SERVED IN ALL WARSMajor Edward T. Hails, Jr. USAFR

Founders Flight, Order of Daedalians—

IN MEMORY OF ALL WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE PURPLE HEARTCol. (Ret.) Ed Smith III

Military Order of the Purple Heart 2205 • Please stand:

IN MEMORY OF ALL AMERICANS WHO HAVE FALLEN IN ALL WARSMs. Elizabeth B. Benjamen

War Memorial Chapel, Washington National Cathedral