July The Twenty-Eighth

O GOD, who never sleepest, and art never weary, have mercy upon those who shall pass this night in pain and sorrow or sin. Comfort the mourners, sustain the dying, give rest to the departed, pity the sin-laden and the guilty; look upon the faint-hearted that they may hope again, on the light-hearted lest they forget Thee, on the tempted lest they fall beneath temptation; and keep us all in safety under the shadow of Thy wing; for Jesus Christ's sake - Amen.

-- W.C.E. NEWBOLT

Photo from Life magazine archives:
Pfc. Faris M. "Bob" Tuohy, 19, holding coffee cup &, along with his fellow Marines, looking grimy and weary from 2 days and 2 nights of fighting on Eniwetok Atoll during WW II.
Location: Marshall Islands, 1944, photographer, Ray R. Platnick.