Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition

[Baker, John]

        The Navy has a page on Commander Forgy at
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-f/h-forgy.htm.

John Baker


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Subject: Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition

Barry Popik posted about "praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" in
1999 (<http://tinyurl.com/a78hb>).

Here's another source attributing the phrase to the same Mr. Forgy:

<http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/13348330.htm>

"She owns an autographed copy of Navy Chaplain Howell M. Forgy's memoir,
'...and Pass the Ammunition'--Forgy coined the phrase 'Praise the Lord
and pass the ammunition' during the Pearl Harbor attack."

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
http://www.doubletongued.org/