From Houston-One by one, the Weiss family rounded up the nine grandchildren, who had been running circles around the barns. They gathered under a towering maple tree, around a table laden with barbecue meatballs and French silk pie, and grabbed one another's hands.
"We ask your blessing on the meal we're about to eat," said David Weiss, 75, head bowed under his camouflage hat.
"Amen," his family responded - a quintessential display of one of America's most enduring religious traditions.
A poll by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that saying grace is a widespread practice in the United States. About half of all Americans take a minute to say a prayer over their food at least a few times a week, the poll reveals, making grace an unusual commonality in a politically divided nation.
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