ALMIGHTY GOD, OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, IN WHOSE HANDS ARE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD: WE ARE TRULY THANKFUL FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY. THEY DID NOT DIE IN VAIN, BUT FOUGHT AND DIED BRAVELY FOR THE RIGHT IN ORDER THAT OUR NATION MIGHT BE LED INTO THE WAY OF JUSTICE AND TRUTH, AND THAT IT MIGHT BE KEPT IN THE PEACE WHICH IS THE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. THROUGH THE CHANNEL OF DEATH, THESE MEN HAVE COME TO THEIR ETERNAL REWARD. GRANT UNTO THEM THY MERCY AND THE LIGHT OF THY PRESENCE, THAT THE GOOD WORK WHICH THOU HAST BEGUN IN THEM MAY BE PERFECTED.

  WE BESEECH THEE TO BLESS ALL WHO FOLLOW IN THEIR STEPS AND ENDUE THEM WITH WISDOM, PATIENCE, AND COURAGE. MAY THEY BE INSPIRED BY THE SACRIFICES OF OUR FALLEN ONES TO MINISTER TO THE SUFFERING, THE FRIENDLESS, AND THE NEEDY.... FOR THE SAKE OF HIM WHO DIED FOR ALL MANKIND, AND WHO REIGNETH FOREVER VICTORIOUS OVER DEATH, HELL, AND THE GRAVE, EVEN THE CAPTAIN OF OUR SALVATION. AMEN.

TOMMY RUSSELL, CHAPLAIN     
330th ENGINEER REGIMENT     
CHINA-BURMA-INDIA, 1945