President Bush’s Memorial Day Proclamation notes, as he has in the past, that today is supposed to be a day of prayer and remembrance.
Lest you regard this as further evidence of theocracy in the White House, consider these examples of past proclamations. The first such proclamation I can find in the most complete record of proclamations with which I’m familiar is JFK’s in 1961. There seems to be an unbroken tradition of proclamations since 1975.
Indeed, there is little point in remembering the dead and NOT praying.
The word "prayer" is in the title and in effectuating part of the official proclamation, but the proclamation as a whole does not read like a prayer.