God Erased: A Hoax?

Posted on June 21, 2008

A note from Radarsite: According to a pretty straight-forward article in Snopes.com, backed up with irrefutable evidence, it seems we’ve been had. It appears that the Arlington Cemetery story was a hoax. Why this hoax was perpetrated on all of us and who did it are still evidently a mystery. So, Radarsite is issuing its first official retraction.
However, considering that our sources were both the Washington Times and Fox News.com, we don’t feel too guilty about this mistake, and it appears that we’ve got a lot of company; this story was reposted all over the web.

So, it seems we’ve hung the horse thief for stealing the wrong horse.

However, it is no mystery to us why this story was so readily believed. The left — ala Dr. Newdow/ACLU. et al — have been working feverishly to remove any mention of God or any Higher Power from our public life. And, to an unfortunate degree, they have succeeded in their mission. As we have seen, in these last few years, our public officials have caved in on many occassions to pressure from these anti-religion forces.

Therefore, Radarsite apologizes to its readers for being duped (along with some other pretty reputable media outlets) on the facts of this particular story. However, having said that, we stand by the commentary we have made on this subject, which, sadly, still holds true throughout our beleaguered country. -rg

You can read the whole story here at Snopes. The photo of the memorial inscription below however pretty much tells the whole story. Good job by Snopes.com.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/memorial.asp

Here is the original Washington Times article:

Inside the Beltway
Originally published 11:28 p.m., June 3, 2004, updated 12:00 a.m., June 4, 2004

Bob McEwan paid a visit to the new World War II Memorial in Washington this week and “got an unexpected history lesson.”
“Since I’m a baby boomer, I was one of the youngest in the crowd,” Mr. McEwan tells Inside the Beltway. “Most were the age of my parents, veterans of ‘the greatest war.’ 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 Ike and Truman that are engraved there.”
Mr. McEwan made his way around to the memorial’s “Pacific” section, where a group had gathered to read the determined words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he announced the Japanese 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 woman, says Mr. McEwan, read the words aloud: “With confidence in our armed forces — with the unbounding determination of our people — we will gain the inevitable triumph.”
Suddenly, the woman became visibly angry: “Wait a minute,” she told her husband. “They left out the end of the quote. They left out the most important part. Roosevelt said — ’so help us God.’… I know I’m right. I remember the speech.”
The couple shook their heads and walked away.
As Mr. McEwan puts it, “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.”
Those exact words were: “With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounded determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph — so help us God.”

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2 Responses to “God Erased: A Hoax?”

Roger Beddecker on June 22nd, 2008 12:26 am

Hey did you know that the Pledge of Allegiance written by Francis Bellamy originally did not have “under God” in it?

Want to know why? Because he was a Socialist!

Luckily we added it later. That Socialist jerk. Or should I say ‘Marxist’? Oh Heck I’ll just use the terms interchangeably since like everyone else on this site I’ve never taken Economics 101 and don’t know the difference, not realizing that Marxism failed but Socialism is alive and well and doing fine in Norway and works just fine for them.
Roger W. Gardner on June 22nd, 2008 12:51 am

Hello again Roger Beddecker –
I have to say that, once you get past the insults, you really don’t make much sense.
Sorry.