Mark Twain 
The War Prayer 

The War Prayer Mark Twain – Written by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War in the first decade of the twentieth century, The War Prayer tells of a patriotic church service held to send the town’s young men off to war. During the service, a stranger enters and addresses the gathering. He tells the patriotic crowd that their prayers for victory are double-edged-by praying for victory they are also praying for the destruction of the enemy… for the destruction of human life.

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Mark Twain, the writer, adventurer and wily social critic born Samuel Clemens, wrote the novels ‘Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Who Was Mark Twain?Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, was the celebrated author of several novels, including two major classics of American literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor.