By June Griffin

Groaning our way through the babyhood of liberalism and their little sensitive natures, we have recently encountered another of their complaints, that of having to pledge allegiance to the American flag. It seems they are offended by this honorable institution and cannot suffer our American customs.

Grasping at historical straws, these infantile gripers suppose they have found a stronghold in discovering that, behold, the Pledge once was without the insert: under God, which is supposed to be justification for doing away with it entirely. Well, yes, it is true that during the administration of president Eisenhower, the words under God were added. The reason it was inserted, according to the president, was to reaffirm our Christian heritage. No one minded at the time, in fact, they rather liked the affirmation of our Christian heritage and it was repeated in schools and public assemblies everywhere.

Well, since they don't like the words under God in our Pledge, let's give them an alternative. In the child's book, Second Reader, printed in 1917, is a little stronger medicine: "I give my head, my hands, and my heart to God and my country, one God, one country, and one flag." Any problem with the 1917 version?

Alas, behind these babies is their saviour - The ACLU lawyer, et al - who gleans big bucks out of litigating away our American foundations while your tax dollars via Title 42 USC 1988 pay their legal fees. The so-called Civil Rights Act, Title 42, aided these in happily running off with copies of God's law, silencing your public prayers, and threatening to remove In God We Trust from our money. Toleration of this Goliath has brought God's wrath upon our entire nation and school systems, and now has decimated the glories of the "global market," making them a collective of beggars.

The American Legion boldly denounced the lawyer-leeches at the Legion Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2004, asking Congress to halt the practice of tax-financed legal fees. This should be headlines in every major newspaper in the past few years, the prestigious Sons of the American Revolution is helping swell the ranks of the patriotic.

A pledge of allegiance is a commitment of faithfulness to one's country, as the marriage vow is to one husband or one wife. It is an oath of love and as patriotism is the highest of natural affections, it is exclusive and forbids dual citizenship. Samuel Fallows, Methodist preacher, Union Brigadier General, US Volunteers, former State school superintendent of Wisconsin, President of the Society of Patriotic Knowledge, said: "the love of country is one of the most absorbing passions of the human soul. It is a love all other human loves excelling. The maxim: "it is sweet to die for one's country" finds a confirmation in the heroism and patriotism of every land. No more resplendent deeds have been performed in the history of the world than in the country we proudly call our own. No nation has greater claims to the devotion of its citizens than ours. Born amid the throes of the Revolution and born again amid the pangs of our great Civil War, it stands among the foremost nations of the earth for intelligence, activity, liberty, religion and progress."

The enemies of Americanism will find it very dangerous to dig into our history. It is all "for God and country." "He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it."

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