In an AF.mil article, the incoming AF Chief Chaplain speaks about the importance of trusting God, and the effect that has had on America.

There are people who think it inappropriate for the most powerful nation on earth to stamp ‘In God We Trust’ on every dollar bill, every coin and across every official seal.  There are people who believe trusting in God is nothing more than foolishness, superstition (and) weakness….America exists because of men and women who trusted in God.

It was trust in God that gave religiously persecuted families the courage to sail across the Atlantic and arrive in a new world far from the comforts of civilization.  It was trust in God that helped Puritans establish Massachusetts, led Roman Catholics to found Maryland as a Catholic colony, caused the Quakers to settle Pennsylvania, helped Catholic priests establish missions in California and gave strength and vision to our ancestors to build this nation.

It will be our trust in God that will keep our nation free and preserve us as a nation.