The other day, Rep. Jim McDermott, a Washington Democrat, led the House in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and left out the words "under God."
Yesterday, the House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, chastised him.
She said she thinks that won’t happen again.
Also yesterday the nation inaugurated the World War II Memorial on the Washington mall, with thousands of surviving veterans attending.
Since the phrase was added in the 1950s, not one World War II soldier, sailor or flier had pledged allegiance to the nation "under God."
Yet, somehow, they did what they had to so well that we call them the "Greatest Generation." The dead and the living both.
May God save us from the religious.