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Stores closed, residents filled church pews and folks generally stayed close to news outlets for the latest information. Movie goers taking in a show that day would even receive news updates from theater staff. </p> <p>The Houston Chronicle editorial board summed up the momentous day:</p> <blockquote><p>Let this day be for all Americans a day of prayer and reconsecration. Let Americans bombard the throne of heaven with petitions for victory. Let us pour forth our earnest supplications that our losses will be held to a minimum.</p></blockquote> <p>Reporter Sig Byrd had been out at area churches. <a href="http://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/files/2014/06/joined_document_2Byrd.pdf">According to an article in the next day’s Houston Post</a>, the city’s spiritual leaders didn’t wait for daylight to comfort worried families here.</p> <blockquote><p>Probably the first church in the city to open for D-Day services was St. Paul’s Episcopal in Park Place. 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