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Woody D
Skeptic Friend
Thailand
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 Posted - 04/02/2004 : 12:24:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by ljbrs
I remember first hearing the "UNDER GOD" in the Pledge of Allegiance. I was saying "indivisible" and nearly choked when everybody else was chanting "UNDER GOD". I had do use self control to avoid a horse laugh (thinking about all of the silly little people who simply had to force "UNDER GOD" into the Pledge of Allegiance).
Just watched a program on PBS about American history. People dressed as historical figures such at Thomas Jefferson were reciting things they did for the country. Now we come to Bettsy Ross sitting there sewing the flag and talking about the pledge...then she says the pledge.....WITH the words 'under god'. Should I be pissed that this was inacqurate? Shouldn't someone write to the station and or program to complain? I think she even emphizied the words under god, aren't children being propagandized by that? (it was a school program). How many people knew that was wrong....or cared?
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 04/02/2004 : 12:55:20 [Permalink]
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| Hey, Woody, I'm still annoyed from finding out that the old classic, Schoolhouse Rock, claims that Henry Ford invented the automobile. I wince everytime I hear that lyric. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
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Why not question something for a change?
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 04/04/2004 : 22:21:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Renae
You all crack me up. What a great thread. 
I remained silent during "under God." Even when I was an Angry Young Woman, I didn't think that the Pledge was the hill to die on, as they say in the army.
It's kinda weird to make kids say the Pledge anyway, isn't it? With or without "under God," it's indoctrination to have kids mindlessly repeating something they memorized but don't really understand...hmmmm....
Naaahhhh. That's too paranoid for even a leftist like me. 
Ya know what Renae, I don't ever recall saying the pledge when I was in the Marines. I mean, we had to know it for promotion boards and such, no one missed a beat when I left out the 'under God' part there. They didn't even question it. It always came back listed as correct. Of course, I missed the actual board, I tended to piss off the Gunny's that were first in line for the Staff NCO lobotomy.
Now there was always revelie (I was usually awake for this, since I usually had to stop my car in the drive through at the McDonalds, which really annoyed the civilians. But they were on a military base... Or I slept through it, vampires dislike the sunlight for some reason or other. And of course there was taps, was usually at work for that, missed it quite often, being inside was the prefered place to work. The Santa Ana wind and 14' off the ground don't mix well, especially when you aren't attached to anything. Besides, a soldering iron doesn't stay warm enough under those conditions to get a proper connection.
Anyway, the Marines were more concerned with knowing things like the 7 Leadership Values, the Code of Conduct, and your job, etc. |
...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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Woody D
Skeptic Friend
Thailand
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Posted - 04/05/2004 : 16:11:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Trish
Now there was always revelie (I was usually awake for this, since I usually had to stop my car in the drive through at the McDonalds, which really annoyed the civilians. But they were on a military base...
McDonalds!!! Oh O!
Were you there for the toy or to get fat so you could sue?
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