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Pepe said:
Which was an afterthought, and I think was forced into the pledge by William Jennings Bryan. There was a great deal of controversy over it's inclusion.
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I don't think 'under god' was added until not too long after WW2, although I could be wrong.
 
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nicksjuzunk said:
Biggest “what if” Tennessee player for you? A player who was either derailed by injuries, transfer, or removed from the team.

I’m going with Lamarcus Coker. Dude should have set records with his speed and vision, but he must have smoked 2 marajuanas during his career and was kicked off the team
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Cobb Webb may have been the best tandem of RB's in Tennessee's history and unfortunately only got to see them together for a season
 
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Crazy Ivan said:
I don't think 'under god' was added until not too long after WW2, although I could be wrong.
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I looked in Wikipedia and say it was added in 1954. Old-time framers of the government we're very nervous about over-emphasizing religion in our official stuff. Recent wisdom is far less hesitant to violate the concept of the separation of church and state.
 
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Pepe said:
I looked in Wikipedia and say it was added in 1954. Old-time framers of the government we're very nervous about over-emphasizing religion in our official stuff. Recent wisdom is far less hesitant to violate the concept of the separation of church and state.
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Most of the framers were god-fearing men and many of their writings reflect that as well. As do the Bill of Rights and the Preamble.
 
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Pepe said:
I looked in Wikipedia and say it was added in 1954. Old-time framers of the government we're very nervous about over-emphasizing religion in our official stuff. Recent wisdom is far less hesitant to violate the concept of the separation of church and state.
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True, but interestingly, at the same time they understood the importance of religion to the new democracy, which would have a limited number of institutions capable of binding the people together, with language and religion they considered at the time to be important ones. But at the time they also wanted to restrict the Anglican Church's power in the new states, and to do so they had to separate church and state.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
I have a really hard time believing our military would decimate our own people..just don't see it...they may go in for some limited police actions at first, but so many of them are right wingers by nature that I just don't see them wholesale slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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a lot would turn on their own government
 
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One thing our public education lacks in tremendously is a core civics class. I personally think it should be a required hs class , and should be taught without bias. Just strait hard core facts on how our government is set up, how laws are passed, why it is important to vote, etc, etc.. Of course a true U.S. History class based on facts and dates instead of revisionist crap and agendas would benefit the youth as well.
 
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