Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: pledge of allegiance Message-ID: <1167@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 22:34:47 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1167 Posted: Wed Mar 7 22:34:47 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 01:10:08 EST References: <1911@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 10 & Just for the record, the secular reference in the Pledge of Allegiance is an interpolation. The original Pledge ran "... one nation, indivisible, ..." The change was demanded by organizations of people who belived that any patriotic credo must contain some reference to the Deity, no matter how inapt. Perhaps somebody with a longer memory than mine can supply the details. Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel