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
Most quotes on most memorials I see are edited in some fashion or
other -- if nothing else then by selection of what to include or not
include, where to start and where to end, and so on. I think the
exception is the Lincoln Memorial with the full Gettysburg Address
and full 2d Inaugural
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SHALL WE HIRE A MONUMENT
, Eugene
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This is apparently a myth. See
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/memorial.asp; among other things, it
includes what appears to be a photo
would have thought I’d see
one forwarded.
Ed Brayton
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I have heard (hearsay) someone say that FDR gave two speeches that
day one with so help us God. and one without. The one with So help
us God.' being the one broadcast and the one we hear every December
7. Was there other one to Congress?
Alan Armstrong
On Dec 17, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Gibbens,
I have noticed that this type of Email frequently ends with something like...
If you agree, pass this on. If not,
May God Bless YOU!
Or
If you agree, pass this on. If not,
then delete!
To me, this is the most infuriating portion of the statement. What message does
The BBC hired a guy to read some of Churchill's speeches, but to the best of my
knowledge, if you've got audio of Roosevelt, it's live. By 1941, he lacked a
lot of the vigor he had eight years earlier. Doing speeches twice is unlikely.
From the FDR Library, here is audio of the speech (it's
