The Pledge of Allegiance - Very Cool!

[BFT3K]

This is NOT a partisan post - it's just a great clip from 1969...



https://youtube.com/watch?v=eMR6d_9GsCQ

[nation-x]

/me clicks *like*

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Good one!

[BFT3K]

[raymor]

Pretty good stuff. When I was younger I had a deep sense of the principles my country stands for, freedom, justice, and liberty for all. I wish I could say I still felt as deeply that allegiance to this nation is allegiance to these profound principles. Perhaps let's a matter of leadership - Kennedy and Reagan, for example, inspired a view of what our country stands for that was much different from what Clinton and Bush personify.

Older now, having seen where our country has headed in the last twenty years, I feel less for the country itself and more for the principles it was founded on, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

[Barry-xlovecam]

You probably don't understand what was going on in 1969. I was there and this was part of the propaganda last hurrah of the "establishment". The Chicago Democrat Convention, The Yippes, SDS and Weathermen ... Then Red Skelton on his TV show dispensing more propaganda.

[C]ambodia officially had a policy of neutrality in relation to the Vietnam War, but nonetheless there were North Vietnamese bases in Cambodia during the conflict. In 1969 the United States began secretly bombing these bases along the Vietnam/Cambodia border and in Cambodian territory. This covert action was codenamed ?Operation Menu?, and by the time it ended more than 3,000 sorties had been flown.

It was in 1970 that the invasion by American and South Vietnamese ground forces occurred. They crossed the border in the hopes of defeating an estimated 40,000 North Vietnamese troops and capturing their headquarters, but in the end neither of these objectives were met, as both the enemy forces and their headquarters proved to be elusive.

One lasting effect of the bombing and invasion by American and South Vietnamese forces was unfortunately to create a climate in Cambodia that later allowed the Khmer Rouge to come to power, with devastating consequences for the country.

The invasion by American forces was very unpopular in the United States, and it caused a wave of protests. During a protest at Kent State University in Ohio, United States National Guardsmen shot at student protesters, killing four of them.

http://www.holiday-in-angkor-wat.com...-cambodia.html

My friend Sam was a Green Beret Sergent -- he was air dropped in the Cambodia incursion, it was another illegal act of Richard M Nixon and his yes man Henry Kissinger, Mr. Peace with Dignity. My friend Danny, who fought in Da Nang and came home one brick short of a load. My friend Ron, who's older brother returned from the Nam and OD'd (we kept quiet the part of the suicide), my science teacher's son who came home in a closed casket ... and the list goes on ...

Red Skelton dishonors the men that died.

20,863 US Servicemen, many draftees, that were too poor to go to college and get draft deferments died in Nixon's Meat Grinder, 1969 -1973. After this bunk; the following year, 1970, the Kent State Massacre occurred.

[Vendzilla]

Originally Posted by raymor

Pretty good stuff. When I was younger I had a deep sense of the principles my country stands for, freedom, justice, and liberty for all. I wish I could say I still felt as deeply that allegiance to this nation is allegiance to these profound principles. Perhaps let's a matter of leadership - Kennedy and Reagan, for example, inspired a view of what our country stands for that was much different from what Clinton and Bush personify.

Older now, having seen where our country has headed in the last twenty years, I feel less for the country itself and more for the principles it was founded on, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

It's the leader's like you said. Last few presidents haven't personified a real patriot feeling, with the one we have now, I get something like America is a great nation, lets work to change that,

I watched Red Skeleton as a kid, he was the best, made everyone laugh.

[Vendzilla]

Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

Red Skelton dishonors the men that died.

So, Red didn't like the daily protests about the war where they were burning the US flag a lot and had a problem with taking prayer out of schools, how is that dishonoring the men that died? The man was a comedian...

I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.
Quote by "Red Skelton"