I have heard or read this somewhere else this past week about those words being deleted. I forget where it was though. Sorry.
So they have revised the language in the memorial and revised Eisenhower's "crusader" speech. We don't want to offend anybody so we basically are writing ourselves and our most sacred beliefs out of history.
Who can blame us when we disappear. We stood for nothing really. We never said "No".
Our local talk host in Memphis also mentioned it, and one caller said they left of the part about Japan being the attacker.