[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I know about the skepticism with which e-mail is regarded. I'm sure somebody who has visited the WWII memorial can confirm this bit of PC, however.

[RetiredArmy]

I have heard or read this somewhere else this past week about those words being deleted. I forget where it was though. Sorry.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PC bump!

[CasearianDaoist]

I don;t know about the story but they did truncate the quote to avoid the mention of God. Pretty disrespectful to our vet if you as me.

[Phantom Lord]

What do we expect when a statue of the 3 firefighters raising the Flag on the WTC rubble have their race changed just a few short months after the actual event.

Had it been a generic memorial statue to those who served with honor that day then a multicultural statue would have been fine. But to make a statue from an actual photograph and change the people in it is wrong and PC run amuk.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Well, judging by some of the replies on this thread, a LOT of stuff was left out on the memorial.

[the Deejay]

Have I lost part of my mind or was this country NOT founded by Christians and the Christian Faith?

Not only are they removing Jesus Christ, Christ, God but also crosses!!!

A country will fall without God (I recall something to that effect in the Bible), Jesus Christ and Christianity.

[RaceBannon]

I have heard the speech many times on TV, so, I will confirm that it is there, too

Havent been to the memorial, though.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Snopes has it here.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/memorial.asp

[Kirkwood]

Essentially all of the religious quotations by our founding fathers have been ripped from our history. You have to really hunt now to find the truth. It is very sad. Many gave their lives for America for religious freedom... maybe as much if not more so than for political freedom.

[timydnuc]

I have heard of this many times, from different sources in the last few days and I feel that it is not an "urban legend". If, as I suspect, it is not then there should be a write in campaign to the President himself to correct the monument. 80 Million emails to the White House, with cc: to the media, and your senators and congresspeople should shake the tree enough. Get pissed and email, it only takes a minute.

When I was in High School I recreated that Dec. 8th speech to the joint session of congress in 1941 for a Dec. 7th program for the entire High School and community. We did a 45 minute program about that "dastardly attack" I was, and I still am, a pretty good impersonator. I borrowed one of my dad's more "conservative" "zut suits from the 40's, I got a pair of my uncle Will's pinch glasses. I combed my hair as close as possible to all the pictures that my mom and dad had of FDR. I had a very special and beautiful lady friend (one of the popular girls in school) that voluntarily taught me how to walk like I had braces and to lean on the podium correctly, for balance (she knew, she had polio as an infant, she did it every day). I worked for 2 weeks, 3 hours a day listening to the speech over and over again. When the time came, the night before, my parents had a few family friends and some of my friends over for a dress rehearsal, brought them to their feet. The program was much the same. We, the Junior & Senior Class had put the program together for the school and the community. I vividly remember those last words, as did all of our parents, and they were...."so help us God", and the program ended with those words.

We were patriotic and thankful for our war heroes in those days, cause they were our moms and dads. Oh yes, we all believed in God.

[quadrant]

Did they add by whom the United States was attacked? or is that politically taboo as well?

[socal_parrot]

It's an excerpt. A lot of the speech was omitted. I do think it would have been inspiring to leave the part about God in.

George W Bush gave a great speech about the sacrafices of D-day without mentioning Germany.

[Ciexyz]

Wow!