Pepsi Products and the Pledge of Allengence

I wish there was a way for PF to "hide" letters like this, and maybe
email the poster that what they were writing about is an internet
hoax. I mean, this is the second or third letter like this recently,
and has all the same comments attached to it the other ones did.

Or we as members could unite and maybe read that one person pointed
out the hoax and mentioned snopes so maybe all of us don't have to
repost the same thing.

Just saying I'd rather see a "real" letter hang out on the top
25...and yes, I realize by posting this it will probably stay on a
little longer :)

"God forbid, that you try to change or REWRITE the pledge of
allengence!!!!!!!"
If you really feel that way, then you should support the original
version, the one written without the "Under God" in it...

That said, I'll be another voice for being sure you do things right
and check facts. SNOPES is a great site.

This is false.
Whenever I get an email like this, I look it up on snopes. If you had
searched on this site, you would have found this is false.
I always send the sender a reply with the snopes link in an attempt to
create a reverse chain, prompting people to look stuff up.

I learned years ago that what you receive in email is not always the
truth...if it was we would all be having free meals at Applebee's;
have $10,000 from Bill Gates; have a free HP laptop; believe that the
new US Gold Dollar coin does not have in God We Trust on it; that
there is a little girl lying in a hospital bed and if you forward your
email to 100 people AOL will donate $1 towards her health bill...the
list goes on and on.

The internet holds a plethera of information. There basically is
nothing that you cannot find on it.

Its fine to get upset and ticked off if this were true but you really
need to research it first before emailing Pepsi...try www.snopes.com
you will find out many email stories and articles on there.

Ah yes, the Pepsi/Pledge of Allegiance hoax. It will never die, will
it?

:)

Granted he's 79, but we're just happy he's actually USING the
computer!

http://tinyurl.com/pepsihoax


What more do you want them to do?

They only made the cans between November 2001 and February 2002.

I have not responded to the other ones, I will this one though.

I am an EXTREMELY Patriotic person. I was born and raised here in the
State. I can trace my family back to Benedict Arnold ( I know he
ended up a Traitor) so my family has been here a long time. My family
jokes that I bleed Red, White and Blue. Due to a deformity in my
shoulders, I could not Serve in the Military or else I would have
joined the Marines the day after I graduated High School.

All that being said I NEVER Say "Under God" when I say the Pledge. I
am quite when those words are being said. The ORIGINAL Pledge did NOT
have those two words. I think it should be taken BACK out. Now, you
may ask "What about our money? They all say 'In God We Trust'." Your
right they do. They ALWAYS have. It wasn't something that was
changed to make us different from the Commies of the '50's. I don't
like it and I don't agree with it on there, but it has always been.

Oh, and I am a Christian and go to Church every Sunday. I just
believe, as a Patriotic American, this country was founded on
Religious FREEDOM, why should ONE religion be forced on everyone.

Had you done your research, you'd know that:

1. This was originally rumored to be on Dr. Pepper cans.
2. This is a rumor.
3. "Under god" wasn't added to the pledge until the 1950s, and
shouldn't be in there because of the separation of church and state.
4. You need to stop blindly accepting everything someone tells you
without doing your own research.

Oh, and big props for insinuating that those that don't say "under
god" are unpatriotic. *eyeroll*

I agree. Please do some research - this is a myth.

This is an urban legend. They are not putting the pledge on their
cans at all. Look it up on snopes.com.