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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 21:44:12 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-05-03, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2025 18:54:15 +0000, dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1) wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 3 May 2025 14:21:04 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-05-03 10:04 a.m., Mike Duffy wrote:
>>>> On 2025-05-03, BryanGSimmons wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Everybody fucks up the US anthem.  The only times I've heard it sung
>>>>> well in this century was several times on opening weekend of the StL
>>>>> Symphony, when the audience joins the orchestra.
>>>>
>>>> I forget her name, but the best I heard was an opera singer. (USA)
>>>>
>>>> The Canadian one I cannot sing anymore because they changed
>>>> the words *3* fucking times in my memory and always fall
>>>> back to what we sang as youngsters and get out of sync &c.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I avoid the confusion by singing it in French. IMO anthems are no long
>>> anthems when thy change them. The last change was especially annoying. I
>>> thought if it was really important to have new words they could have
>>> altered one of the other verses instead of the one everyone seems to
>>> think is the only one.
>>
>>In our club, we say the American pledge of allegiance at the start of
>>meetings. I thought it was peculiar that the old guy next to me left out
>>the words "under God" which threw me off beat. I asked him about it and
>>he said that's the way he learned it and he gets mixed up sometimes. It
>>seems that those words were added to the pledge in 1954, when the
>>Americans were gripped with fear of the commies. It was added because a
>>commie can't say those words without stopping to spit. It was a way to
>>ferret out the true commies in our midst.
>>
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67wKhddWu4
>
> So religion is forced down people's throats in the US?

Not where I live.  Although Trump is trying his best to make
Christianity the national religion.

Really, saying "one nation, under God" is barely "shoved down
one's throat".  I can't remember the last time I said the Pledge.
Fifty years ago, perhaps?

I wonder what weird club David belongs to.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton