<p>My only complaint about noon meal prayer was that it’s boring, and sometimes you just wish they would shut up so you can eat. I’d often find time right after formation but before the prayer to slip away and go relieve myself or call a loved one. By the time I got back everyone was seated, and my squad leader never really tripped. </p>
<p>The prayers were from many different religions and some secular philosophies. I don’t think anyone was really offended by the prayers. Those of us who experienced Native American-phile primary education were ****ed off by the Columbus/Indigenous Peoples’ Day prayer, in which the chaplain beseeched God that we all be granted the fortitude & integrity of Columbus. Otherwise, I got the sense that noon meal prayer meant a lot to a good number of mids. The rest of us don’t care either way.</p>
<p>I think the ACLU should become the African Civil Liberties Union, or the Arab Civil Liberties Union, and move their entire operation to a region that has real human rights abuses to deal with; Annapolis is not the haunted darkness that begs for their liberty candle.</p>