A week ago I posted WW II Memorial Censors FDR That post was about a Washington Times column asserting that the new WWII Memorial in effect censored "so help us God" out of President Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech.
A reader pointed out that this story is not true and makes reference to the urban legend debunking Snopes.com. From Snopes:
Claim: A display at the National World War II Memorial omits key words from a speech by President Roosevelt.
Status: False.[. . .]
Only a very short excerpt from President Roosevelt's speech is inscribed on the National World War II Memorial. The sentence that ends "so help us God" wasn't edited to remove those final four words — the phrase "so help us God" isn't there because the sentence that contains it (highlighted in blue above) doesn't appear on the memorial at all. The words inscribed on the memorial were taken from a completely different sentence (highlighted in red above) delivered earlier in the speech, which is reproduced in its entirety:
Thanks to FAIR for pointing this out. FAIR also pointed out that I incorrectly credited the story to the Washington Post instead of the Washington Times, an embarrassing error which I have corrected in the original post.
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