O God, help us to remember this day, all those who have lost their lives in our nations wars.
Help us to keep the memory of these honored dead sacred in our minds and hearts
That their lives might never be forgotten among those of us who have survived
     the dangers of war.
We wonder why it is that they have fallen and we have survived to live another day.
We wonder how best to honor them and the supreme sacrifice they made

Make of our lives, O God, a fitting tribute to our comrades we remember this day and every day
We remember their friendship
     Help us to be as loyal and dedicated to others as they were to us
We remember their courage
Help us to have the courage to stand and even to fall for what is good and perfect
     in your eyes
We remember their pain and suffering
Help us to live so that all warring between nations will come to an end in our time

For if our fallen comrades died for anything, perhaps they, and the countless millions of
children, mothers, and fathers who have been sacrificed in wars between nations died so that we
who survive them might live for something higher, something far more noble than the chaos and   agony that is war.

We have been touched by war. We who have served know the bitterness, the pain, and the fear
     of war.
Veterans know, as perhaps only you can know, O God, of the futility of war.

We gather today to celebrate not war, or the seeming inevitability of war in human affairs, but to celebrate and remember the lives of our fallen comrades -- that they might not have died in vain. We join their prayer that we may all live for that day when swords will be beaten into
     plowshares,
and all people will study war no more. Perhaps, if that day had come years ago, our friends could have been a gift of love to the world today, instead of a sacrifice to the world's hatred.

While we live, dedicate our lives to work as hard for peace among nations, as some people rush so quickly to war. Help us to live, as our comrades died, to bring an end to the warring of your children on this earth for ever.