US Army Special Forces Prayer In honor of Lieutenant General (ret). William G. "Jerry" Boykin History Written in 1961 for William Pelham "Bill" Yarborough Written by SF Chaplain John Stevey, the 7th SFG (ABN) Chaplain History of Art Work and First Printing In 1962, Then 1st Lt. WW "Wild Wes" Ford being bored while in Psy. Ops. school at Ft. Bragg and having a little wine, either, French or German, noticed the engraved Border work on the Bottle. And then going back to his quarters found a copy of the Special Forces Prayer and started penciling in the Wine bottle border. He had Black, Red, Brown and Yellow Marker Pens to do the works with. Decided it looked good enough to print. He took it to the 1st PSYWAR Print trailer, that at the time had a brand new Litho Printer, and talked to the Sgt. to see if he could get 10 or 15 copies printed. The Sgt. (Unknown) told him he could print 250 but would be hard to register the colors. Above are the proofs of the color registration. Special Forces at the time, being a trading outfit, Wild Wes traded 2 - 8 oz. 2 quart Desert Canteens for the printing. The 250 copies were put on a Class table at 1st PSYWAR and were gone at the end of the day. One of the Instructors took it to the book store to get more, (at the bottom of the proof is printed "Printed by 1st PSYWAR as training Material") and as you know they have been available ever since. Picture, video clips, and audio belong to respective owners. I claim no copyright whatsoever. No ...
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