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"I have previously read this story of how and who wrote the original Pledge of Allegiance. It doesn't impress me. It's irrelevant"

So have I and you are exactly right. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is what we are thinking when we recite it, extending thanks to the K of C who put it in perspective.

Your letters to the ed. are remarkable, TI. Keepers for distribution. I think you made your point in fine style and you logic was impeccable. But then, I'm not the mayor. ;>

Thank you for those kind words. It is just nit picking but it wasn't the mayor who replied to me it was Habecker himself. The council member who made the stink. FWIW he was removed in the recall election by a large majority vote. Even without my letters. (The mayor did support him so he's a putz too.)

He has threatened to file a lawsuit against the recall committee and the town citing his "Constitutional rights being infringed." But he outed himself in another letter to the editor this summer. During the whole nasty episode, that he started and ended with his ouster, he claimed to be "agnostic." But he wrote a LthE bitterly complaining about the YMCA Conference Center getting a tax break (can't remember if it was state or county). He made some irrational statements about Estes renaming itself "God City" or "Jesus Town" (or something like that) and carping about how many churches there are here and how full their parking lots are on Sundays. It was very bizarre and very funny. So much for being an agnostic. What is even funnier is that the YMCA is about as secular as anything. They will literally host any religious get-together and lots of things having no religious connections at all.

Again, thanks for the compliment. Glad you liked my treatise.