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GOD OUT? POLKA DOTS IN!

John McCaslin of The Washington Times had a disturbing item in his column last week about a fudged-up quote on the new World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

It seems four words were left off a plaque quoting President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s stirring speech the day after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The quote reads: ‘’With confidence in our armed forces -- with the unbounding determination of our people -- we will gain the inevitable triumph.’’

But there’s a problem. They left off FDR’s last four words: ‘’so help us God.’’

Nasty! Deceitful! Makes you mad, doesn’t it? Makes you want to fire off a letter to your senators and congressional representatives, no doubt.

Letting that quote stand, incomplete, would be like teaching schoolkids that Patrick Henry said, ‘’Give me liberty!’’ and leaving off the ‘’. . . or give me death.’’

It’d be like quoting Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s ‘’D-Day’’ sendoff, June 6, 1944, ending with:

‘’Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.’’

Look how completely the meaning and tone of that is changed when you include Ike’s real ending:

‘’Let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.’’

It’s time to fight back. Let’s not take one more instance of lying, radical leftists trying to rewrite history, and expunge God.

A new engraving should be put in that WWII Memorial, right next to the erroneous one, with the names of those responsible for leaving God’s name out of it, quoted as saying, ‘’Because we hate God, we left off these four words from FDR’s statement, ‘so help us God.’ We’re sorry. We were wrong. And as long as we’re confessing, we hereby admit that our mothers wear Army boots and we all wear purple polka dotted underwear.’’

Once stuff like THAT gets etched in stone, maybe the boneheads would start getting things right.

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Prayer request: Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of D-Day. Father, help us to teach the next generation of children all about that day, what led up to it, and all the good that came out of it. Help us to foster a lot of honor and attention in our children toward American veterans, especially those who fought in WWII. Lead us to the day when we won’t have to ‘’learn war any more.’’ (Micah 4:3)