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I thought it appropriate, considering the threats we face today from intolerant hateful extremists, to remember, as Holocaust Education Week is about to start soon, that America is still the beacon of Freedom to the world!!! Irving Berlin wrote the song in 1918 while serving the U.S. Army at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York, but decided that it did not fit in a revue called Yip Yip Yaphank, so he set it aside...In 1938, with the rise of Hitler, Berlin, who was Jewish and a first-generation European immigrant, felt it was time to revive it as a peace song, and it was introduced on an Armistice Day broadcast in 1938 sung by Kate Smith, on her radio show...
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 04:15:26 +0000

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