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From Patriots to Fools
Will we stand before our Creator and be able to say, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”
Douglas V. Gibbs / Canada Free Press
Americans, when faced with adversity, have always taken what was designed to destroy us, and turned it into something that unites us. The attacks on September 11, 2001, were designed to divide us, fill us with indecision, and encourage us to huddle in the corner in fear.
Instead, to the surprise of the Muslim World, Americans united, sang songs of patriotism, and honored their dead with memorials and moments of silence. . . while voicing in unison, “We Shall Never Forget.”
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a socialist that wrote the pledge in the hopes it would create a sense of nationalism, and convince Americans to adopt the principles of socialism, a concept akin to his cousin’s (Edward Bellamy) writings regarding utopianism. The original Pledge of Allegiance was published September 8, 1892, in a popular children’s magazine, “The Youth’s Companion.” James B. Upham, a marketer for the magazine, hoped the issue, which also marked the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America, would encourage patriotism and the display of the American flag in public schools.
President Benjamin Harrison issued a proclamation ensuring the Pledge was first used in public schools on October 12, 1892, during Columbus Day observances. Bellamy hoped the pledge would involve children across the country in a large demonstration of national solidarity and nationalism.
The original pledge was recited as, “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” The salute to the flag was with an outstretched hand, a salute that was later made infamous by the Nazis in Germany. Because of the similarity of the Bellamy salute to the Nazi salute, removal of the Bellamy salute occurred on December 22, 1942, and was replaced with a hand-over-the-heart gesture.
In 1923 the National Flag Conference called for the words “my Flag” to be changed to “the Flag of the United States.” The words “of America” were added a year later. The United States Congress officially recognized the Pledge as the official national pledge on June 22, 1942.
The words “under God” being added to the Pledge was initiated by Louis A. Bowman, a Chaplain of the Illinois Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. At a meeting on February 12, 1948 of the organization, Lincoln’s Birthday, Bowman led the Society in swearing the Pledge with the two words added, “under God.” Bowman repeated his revised version of the Pledge at other meetings, as well.
In 1951, the Knights of Columbus also began including the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. On April 30, 1951, in New York City, the Board of Directors of the Knights of Columbus adopted a resolution to amend the rest of their Pledge of Allegiance to include the words “under God” after the words “one nation.” Over the next two years, the idea spread throughout the Knights of Columbus organizations nationwide. On August 21, 1952, the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus at its annual meeting adopted a resolution urging that the change be made universal. Copies of their resolution was sent to the President, the Vice President (as Presiding Officer of the Senate) and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. After various suggestions and attempts to include “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, in 1954 the words were finally officially added.
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if you were a carpenter, you’d make tons of money building walls!
then you may be sued because the walls were made shabbily and were full of holes.
all due respect!
Wow, so many ways to tear this ‘paper tiger’ to pieces, isn’t there?
Let’s see – America (aka ‘The European Oligarchy that invaded North America in the 1600s’) was the DIRECT cause of death and displacement of over 70-million Native 1st Peoples during a span of 200 years. FEMA camps were originally known as ‘Indian Reservations’, where the RIGHTFUL RESIDENTS were forced to go and die in resource-less deserts while every treaty with them was laughed at and then broken on purpose (seems American government is consistent in the feature of lying to people they plan to pillage and destroy, in the name of peace). Think the government of America won’t put you in a FEMA camp? Yeah, ask the Cherokees or Sioux how that belief worked for them.
As for putting ‘god’ in the pledge of allegiance, well it’s no different than the Freemasons avowing that there is a god or them printing it on your money. The bigger question that no single ‘Christian’ will ask is, ‘exactly what ‘god’ are we pledging our faithfulness to, being as the word ‘god’ is nothing but a pronoun akin to ‘car’ or ‘house’ or ‘landfill’? I mean, is this Zeus, Amen-Ra, or Ahura Mazda we are addressing when we say ‘god’ in these vows?
So many fools, so much blind faith towards things that have been proven over-and-over again to be lies and deceptions.
Hey. With all these cool little faces we can add before posting a comment I would like to request one of a little yellow face projectile vomiting. Would it help if I said “PRETTY PLEASE”?
“We Shall Never Forget.” Yes what we’ll never forget is who really in fact did 9/11. It was the bush skull and bones crime family and more importantly why they committed mass murder…. /alternative/2014/08/america-is-under-attack-and-the-american-people-know-it-too-3015792.html