RE: What do you think prayer is?
February 1, 2018 at 1:43 pm
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2018 at 1:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That's certainly what a cadence is, on the mental conditioning end. Talking yourself up before the fact, remember it during the fact, singing it again after the fact. Most of us (I'd go so far as to say all of us) do something similar. Do you have any pre-surgery rituals or ways of reassuring yourself or pumping yourself up? Prayer is one expression of diverse but fundamentally common human behavior, not an altogether different sort of human behavior.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
