If you do not listen, and if you do not set your heart to honor my name, "says the LORD Almighty," I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings.

I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that honor his memory and uphold the principles he so nobly advanced.

But one police officer, watching the militia, said a prayer aloud with the crowd in her honor: "Peace be upon the prophet and her family."