<p>2012mom-
i disagree with the statement that if we didn’t have noon meal prayer people would just look around at their sunday services and discriminate. there’s a big difference between looking around to see who is of your faith on sunday, and a prayer five times a week when all 4000 of us are together. i’m not offended by the prayers, but they are rather annoying (if anyone has heard chaplain logan’s stentorian “and now a reading from Ecclesiastes…and the Lord said, I shall smite you and your people from the face of the earth…and all shall be smitten into dust…and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth…,” then you know what i’m talking about) and frankly they don’t quite seem to fit in the routine of the day. but i’m only speaking for myself.</p>