[IP] more on Oppenheimer and other unwelcomes

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Philip L. Lehman" <p.lehman@iCarnegie.com>
Date: August 4, 2005 10:01:30 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Oppenheimer and other unwelcomes


David Farber wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
> From: Bob Frankston <Bob19-0501@bobf.frankston.com>
> ...
> If anything we seem even more hostile towards the rest of the  
> world  than we did in the 1950’s … it was also the same time we  
> added “in  God we Trust” to the Pledge of Allegiance.

At the risk of focusing on the details, the words "under God" were  
added to the Pledge in 1954 (see http://history.vineyard.net/ 
pledge.htm).

"In God We Trust", on coins for example, dates from significantly  
earlier (see, for example, http://www.religioustolerance.org/ 
nat_mott.htm for a discussion). Not surprisingly, most of the sites  
discussing this are against it, from an "establishment"/"separation"  
argument perspective.

A similar phrase, "In God is our trust," is in Francis Scott Key's  
poem "The Star Spangled Banner," (fourth stanza; not sung much today)  
written about the British attack on Fort McHenry in 1814.  It was  
adopted as the National Anthem in 1931 (see, for example, http:// 
www.bcpl.net/~etowner/anthem.html).

Philip



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