Kate Smith and Veteran’s Day

self | November 14, 2026 | Self

[Retain Mike]

Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and Co-CEO

Comcast Corporation

Comcast Center

1701 John F. Kennedy Boulevard

Philadelphia PA 19103

By no coincidence Kate Smith first performed “God Bless America” the day before Veteran’s Day in 1938. She was a patriotic American, who wanted to encourage her fellow citizens as they suffered through a terrible depression and saw a world torn apart by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. She wanted to reach Americans with the faith she felt for the future of the nation.

As a leading performer in a radio market reaching nearly every household in the country, her way would be through song. So, Kate asked Irving Berlin to write a song that would cause citizens to embrace a positive perception of the country. Irving said he already done what she was looking for and found a song he had written 22 years ago but never published. He made a couple changes in the lyrics leading to a slight change and improvement in the melody. They were unsure how the song would be received but agreed to never accept any profits. The Boy Scouts of America have been the recipient of millions in royalties.

For all time “God Bless America”, promotes patriotic inspirations and elicits memories of the extraordinary commitment to individual liberty this country was to make. From beginning to end, the song reads as a prayer petitioning for the beauty, courage, and spirit of our country to be treasured and renewed.

Partway through the first performance of the song, you will see Ronald Reagan who in 1986 awarded Kate the Presidential Medal of Freedom. For veterans the song has been cherished for representing a truly meaningful expression of their service.

In 2019 she and veterans became victims of a cult dedicated to denigrating, deforming, and destroying the essence of this country. The vehicle chosen for attack was the song “That's Why Darkies Were Born”, which Paul Robison and Kate Smith recorded to strike at racism by sarcastically exaggerating perceptions opposed to the realities of black humanity. A radio address of 1945 found in the Tune In magazine, linked to below, provides her true attitude about racial tolerance. The immediate public response was to request about 20,000 copies of her statement.

This cult recruited morally and intellectually crippled people to proclaim that Kate singing the song along with Paul Robison inflicted emotional damage on them. Here the true objective was to remove this song from the country’s fabric by attacking her. Newly defined social justice allows expressions such as this prominence to support the deceptions of White Privilege, Black Lives Matter, and Critical Race Theory. They in term find their foundation in Cultural Marxism that is intended to replace our Republic.

Your organization decreed Kate’s statue in Philadelphia be covered and removed to protect this revelation of wounded virtue discovered by those finding moral certitude in popular social media posts. The Flyers executives and owners adopted the enabling roles needed to denigrate her. Both the self-proclaimed victims and their enablers determined to indicate their purity by receiving effortless, addictive compassion as the drug of choice.

In the song “God Bless America” she testified to the extraordinary achievements of producing the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights that defined the identity of America. It serves as a cherished reminder to veterans of the oath of office to support and defend the Constitution.

In our new Armed Forces, Kate Smith and her prayer “God Bless America” cannot be allowed to represent a meaningful expression of service. The Armed Forces have been plagued through eight years of Clinton and Obama, and four years of Biden by efforts to substitute leftist social engineering of ethnicity, gender, class, and race for meritocracy and for a reverence towards our Republic. For them the national anthem must become a jingle, the oath of office a limerick, and the uniforms merely costumes.

In our immediate families eight men volunteered and served over three generations, but I now council never again. I still wear my Navy service dress uniform I purchased in 1969 to the Memorial Day ceremony at our local veteran cemetery, but at least the ribbons are for Vietnam service and remain untainted by the agenda you support.

Bibliography:

Kate Smith Sings God Bless America

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=kate+smith+god+bless+america&qpvt=kate+smith+god+bless+america&view=detail&mid=724669BA7D80E531A2DA724669BA7D80E531A2DA&&FORM=VRDGAR

Ronald Reagan Honors Kate Smith with Medal of Freedom

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Ronald+Reagan+Honors+Kate+Smith+with+Medal+of+Freedom&adlt=strict&view=detail&mid=EDD4D8A20EB8C80843E6EDD4D8A20EB8C80843E6&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DRonald%2520Reagan%2520Honors%2520Kate%2520Smith%2520with%2520Medal%2520of%2520Freedom%26adlt%3Dstrict%26FORM%3DVDVVXX

The Philadelphia Flyers remove a statue of Kate Smith over her racist songs

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/21/us/philadelphia-flyers-kate-smith-statue/index.html

Paul Robeson - That's Why Darkies Were Born – 1931

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqaw2jviEsQ

The Rise of Wokeness in the Military

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-rise-of-wokeness-in-the-military/

The Best 30-Minute Explanation of Marxism I Have Ever Heard

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?adlt=strict&q="The%20Best%2030-Minute%20Explanation%20of%20Marxism%20I%20Have%20Ever%20Heard"&mid=44C9E6B3C9E7846906B944C9E6B3C9E7846906B9&ajaxhist=0

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: day; kate; smith; veterans

[Retain Mike]

On November 12, I went to a wonderful event at Eastmont school in Bend showing appreciation for veterans. This Christian school teaches grades K-5 and my grandkids attended. The third graders sang God Bless America. That reminded me of the vile treatment of Kate Smith. This letter is the result. Granted he will probably never see it, but at least I will momentarily irritate someone on his staff each year.

[bigbob]

My dad was drafted in late 1944 and went over to ETO leaving NY harbor on Christmas Day. His abiding memory was of Kate Smith singing to the troops from a towboat in the harbor.

[Fiji Hill]

That's not the original performance of "God Bless America," but a re-enactment from the 1943 movie "This Is the Army." The actual original performance, from November 10, 1938, can be heard here.

Note that this version features the lines "from the green fields in Virginia to the gold fields out in Nome." I wish line had been retained.

The broadcast took place just before Armistice Day. It wouldn't be called Veterans' Day until 1954.

[Ezekiel]

“And now we take great pleasure in presenting to you... the star of our program..”

🪉, for the truly observant:

Kate Smith singing GOD BLESS AMERICA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AOAH2lv3H0

[Sacajaweau]

She was wonderful.

[Fiji Hill]

The vehicle chosen for attack was the song “That's Why Darkies Were Born”, which Paul Robeson and Kate Smith recorded to strike at racism

Note that they attacked the patriot Kate Smith and not the hardcore Stalinist Paul Robeson. The Left considers Robeson a hero to this day.

Here is Comrade Paul's paean to the Soviet Union, in both English and Russian--and his Russian is actually pretty good. But he leaves out the line about writing the Stalinist code in big gold letters, found in the original Russian-language version.

Native Land (1942)

[Fiji Hill]

Here's the hit version of Kate's opus.

God Bless America (1939)

[Retain Mike]

Thanks so much for the help. Every year I hope to make the letter better.