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- SHALL WE HIRE A MONUMENT ENGRAVER TO GO TO
- ARLINGTONNATIONAL CEMETERY AND ADD THE MISSING WORDS?
- THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM AN APPALLED OBSERVER:.
- Today I went to visit the new
- World War II Memorial in Washington,DC.
- I got an unexpected history lesson. Because I'm a baby boomer,
- I was one of the youngest in the crowd. Most were the age of my parents,
- Veterans of 'the greatest war,' with their families. It was a beautiful day,
- and people were smiling and happy to be there. Hundreds of us milled
- around the memorial, reading the inspiring words of Eisenhower and Truman
- that are engraved the memorial.
- On the Pacific side of the memorial, a group of us gathered to read the words
- President Roosevelt used to announce the attack on Pearl Harbor :
- 'Yesterday, December 7, 1941--a date which will live in infamy--
- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked.'
- One elderly woman read the words aloud:
- 'With confidence in our armed forces, with the abounding
- determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph.'
- But as she read, she was suddenly turned angry. 'Wait a minute,' she said,
- 'they left out the end of the quote. They left out the most important part.
- Roosevelt ended the message with
- 'so help us God.'
- Her husband said, 'You are probably right. We're not
- supposed to say things like that now.'
- 'I know I'm right,' she insisted. 'I remember the speech.' The two looked dismayed,
- shook their heads sadly and walked away.
- Listening to their conversation, I thought to myself,
- 'Well, it has been over 50 years; she's probably forgotten.'
- But she had not forgotten. She was right...
- I went home and pulled out the book my book club is reading ---
- 'Flags of Our Fathers' by James Bradley.
- It's all about the battle at Iwo Jima.
- I haven't gotten too far in the book. It's tough to read because
- it's a graphic description of the WWII battles in the Pacific.
- But right there it was on page 58.Roosevelt's speech to the nation ends in
- 'so help us God ..'
- The people who edited out that part of the speech when they engraved
- it on the memorial could have fooled me. I was born after the war!
- But they couldn't fool the people who were there.
- Roosevelt's words are engraved on their hearts.
- Now I ask:
- 'WHO GAVE THEM THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE WORDS OF OUR HISTORY???'
- Send this around to your friends. People need to know before everyone forgets.
- People today are trying to change the history of America by leaving God
- out of it, but the truth is, God has been a part of this nation, since the beginning.
- He still wants to be...and He always will be!
- May God Bless YOU!
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