Howell Maurice Forgy (January 18, 1908-January 1972) was the chaplain on a cruiser during the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He encouraged the men as they were handling the ammunition on December 7, 1941:
<Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.> 1908HF001
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1908HF001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Howell M. Forgy, December 7, 1941, to the men on the navy cruiser where he serving as chaplain. These words became the basis for Frank Loesser's song, Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, 1942. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 871.