Grand Forks hosts National Prayer Luncheon Published April 27, 2012 By Tim Flack 319th Air Base Wing Public Affairs GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Retired Lt. Gen. Michael W. Wooley - keynote speaker at the April 26, 2012, National Prayer Luncheon - told base residents that his faith helped guide him through his 35 years in the Air Force, including six command positions. It helped in the crucial hours after the 9-11 terror attacks, as he helped prepare for the unexpected, wondering with everyone else if the next attack was on the horizon. And it helped each time he received the "dreaded 3 a.m. calls," to learn that one of his deployed warriors had been injured or killed in combat. And his faith is just as strong now, he said. "Know that I pray for each and every one of you ... every day," Wooley told those gathered in the club for the luncheon. Wooley described Grand Forks Air Force Base as a special place. "It's really evident when you come on this base that there's an electricity," he said. "This is a family." Wooley credits his parents - who he called "great role models" - for getting him off on the right foot, for instilling a sense of right and wrong, true values. He joked that many of today's youth wear their values on T-shirt slogans and bumper stickers. "What do people see in you?" Wooley asked those gathered for the luncheon. "What values are you exuding?" He stressed that minutiae of daily life can be more important than ever imagined. "Everything that you do matters - and could possibly change the world," Wooley said.