The Bandera County version of the National Day of Prayer commenced with the posting of the nation’s colors by the Bandera High School Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (NJROTC) and included prayers by local religious leaders and patriotic music.Since the first “Call of Prayer” in 1775 when the Continental Congress asked the colonies to “pray for wisdom in forming our nation,” the call has continued through history. President Lincoln’s proclamation of a day of “humiliation, fasting, and prayer” was issued in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War.The National Day of Prayer was created in 1952 by Congress,