HOW DID HE KNOW IN 1969

[brnidokiegurl 0]

Some of you may remember him but he passed away before many of you were born.

Red Skelton was a movie and TV star, and a good, and funny man. He also ended every

Show by saying, "GOOD NIGHT AND GOD BLESS."

Click the link below and listen to this clip, to the very end. It is something he said 39 years ago.

Very important that you listen to the whole thing, to the very end! It's eerie!

Take a moment and listen to it (from 1969). How would he have known that this is what is happening?

Click on the link, and turn your sound on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfz2XDXaeqc

[DanielParul 50]

Wonderful.. I sent the link to Daniel too..

[brnidokiegurl 0]

it really is a good video guys

[Bootylicious!! 2]

It is a great video. Now I understand why my dad absolutely loved this guy.

[Marc and Olga 0]

Wow in 1969 he sort of predicted the challenge to the pledge of allegiance!

In 2004, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg criticized the addition of "under God" for a different reason. The original supporters of the addition thought that they were simply quoting Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. However, Nunberg said that to Lincoln and his contemporaries, "under God" meant "God willing" and they would have found its use in the Pledge of Allegiance grammatically incorrect.

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imho it never felt right where it is, why don't we just remove it/reverse the addition, anyone know?

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

thanks Red

[wizardfitz 13]

yes i have heard this before and it is very moving. they should play it more often

[sparkofcreation 0]

Wow in 1969 he sort of predicted the challenge to the pledge of allegiance!

In 2004, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg criticized the addition of "under God" for a different reason. The original supporters of the addition thought that they were simply quoting Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. However, Nunberg said that to Lincoln and his contemporaries, "under God" meant "God willing" and they would have found its use in the Pledge of Allegiance grammatically incorrect.

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imho it never felt right where it is, why don't we just remove it/reverse the addition, anyone know?

Because the religious nutjobs would have a giant hissy fit.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I'll bet this will make some here squirm...

The Pledge of Allegiance

A Short History

Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. He was a Christian Socialist. (gasp)

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The Pledge was published in the September 8th issue of The Youth's Companion, the leading family magazine and the Reader's Digest of its day. Its owner and editor, Daniel Ford, had hired Francis in 1891 as his assistant when Francis was pressured into leaving his baptist church in Boston because of his socialist sermons. As a member of his congregation, Ford had enjoyed Francis's sermons. Ford later founded the liberal and often controversial Ford Hall Forum, located in downtown Boston. (liberal socialist, oh my)

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His original Pledge read as follows: 'I pledge allegiance to my Flag and (to*) the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.' He considered placing the word, 'equality,' in his Pledge, but knew that the state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans. [ * 'to' added in October, 1892. ]

Dr. Mortimer Adler, American philosopher and last living founder of the Great Books program at Saint John's College, has analyzed these ideas in his book, The Six Great Ideas. He argues that the three great ideas of the American political tradition are 'equality, liberty and justice for all.' 'Justice' mediates between the often conflicting goals of 'liberty' and 'equality.'

In 1923 and 1924 the National Flag Conference, under the 'leadership of the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution, changed the Pledge's words, 'my Flag,' to 'the Flag of the United States of America.' Bellamy disliked this change, but his protest was ignored.

In 1954, Congress after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus, added the words, 'under God,' to the Pledge. The Pledge was now both a patriotic oath and a public prayer.

http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm

[DARUMA07 25]

Thank You for sharing the Video.... I grew up watching the Red Skelton show. This was one of just a few times that you would see him being serious. I know now why I respected that man as much I do... A Great Man and Comedian...

[Nagishkaw 510]

Oh gosh! My age is showing. Talk about a blast from the past.

[GaryC 7]

Oh gosh! My age is showing. Talk about a blast from the past.

Same here. I loved watching the Red Sketon show. A truely great man.