Taking God Out of American History

SHALL WE HIRE A MONUMENT ENGRAVER TO GO TO ARLINGTONNATIONALCEMETERY AND ADD

Shall we hire a monument engraver to go to Arlington National Cemetery and add the missing words?

  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 there.

On the Pacific side of the mem orial, 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 Pacifi c.   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 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!

If you agree, pass this on and God Bless YOU!

If not, May God Forgive You!