Epperson (DD 719) - Naval Cruise Book

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if '1 as 'T N P EPPERSUN AY A PRAYER FOR EPPERSON DAY Father in Heaven we remember with gratitude and tribute those of our ancestors who died to make our country free and those who in later years died to keep it free and united. We remember our fathers, our brothers, and our friends who died to keep the world from being half free and half slave. As we remember these with gratitude and tribute, let our true memorial be more than a moment, more than a trumpet call, more than a wreath of flowers. Let our memorial today be dedicated to HAROLD GLENN EPPERSON, to recall in this final tribute, his un- deniable courage, his unselfishness of spirit with which he , completely forgot himself and his own safety to save his friends, 1944. Remove from our own thinking all the barriers of race or color or creed. Strengthen our hands with honor. We would be peaceful, Father, but when we must, help us to thunder hard the blow that is just. We would be prayerful, Lord, but when we have prayed - - let us arise courageous, unafraid. We would be manly, Lord, proving well our worth - - then would not cringe to any man on earth. 79 1 at the sacrifice of his life, during the Battle of Saipan, June 25, X,