So I get an email from a friend that at times sends me one of those emails that make the rouinds on the email circuit. You know the kind I’m talking about, the kind that are hard to believe, this can’t be right. There’s the one supposedly from Paul Harvey, the one from Robin Williams, telling about stuff they supposedly said, but really didn’t. And everyone has seen the urban legend emails. There’s the one about the needles on gas pumps with poison, the people that have been left in tubs of ice with organs removed from their bodies. I delete a lot of them, some I check out on urbanlegends.com, or just do a search on Google.

Anyway, this one talks about someone giving a speech at a memorial in Washington, and the orator omits a reference to god from the president’s speech. I just looked it up, the president was Roosevelt, and he said in his speech, “so help us God.", which was omitted from this other person’s speech. Then the email rants about how they were trying to change history and taking god out of the picture. No wait, I read it again. It says supposedly that those words are left off this memorial. Now I’ll really have to verify it. But whether it’s true or not, I still have a problem with the fact that anyone would have a problem with that. The email spouts something about changing history.

Huh?

The person that got a bug up their ass to concoct this email is the same type of person that would have no trouble leaving stuff out of primary and secondary school textbooks. Stuff like Helen Keller being communist, and the fact that some thought it would be a good idea to pass around blankets contaminated with communicable diseases to the native population.

To be fair, we only know this happened because a few people put it in their letters that it might be a good idea, or that they had done it and wondered what the effects would be. The fact is, that if some wrote about it, there were others that did the same thing and didn’t write about it. The point is, they simply don’t teach this stuff in schools. I asked a classmate the other day if she knew who Helen Keller was, and when she said she did, I asked her if she knew she was a communist from age 30 till she died. She didn’t know that little tidbit though. So I can’t see how anyone can complain that a reference to god was omitted on this engraving they are talking about, if it in fact is a legit story. So much of the censorship that has gone on in the world, and continues to this day, has been in the name of religion... gotta go, I'm late for something....