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mmatejka said:Wow...
I take my allegiance to my country very seriously...as did our founding fathers...
I pledge allegience to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands
One Nation, UNDER GOD (!)
Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all...
I know it sounds corny...but as someone who is currently living outside the country, I have realized how blessed we are to be Americans (for those of us who are...)
Deus Ex Machina said:As silly as pledging to a piece of cloth sounds to many of us adults, it is an important tool to teach reverence for our political institutions to our younger students.
Admittedly, when we were children, we all robotically uttered those words. And most of us screwed up the pronunciation of the word "indivisible", but didn't we all know that there was something in those monotonous words that our teachers and parents found to be important?
Yes, we do grow up, and the need for reciting this litany is replaced with a more sophisticated study of the Constitution. The irony is that by enshrining the right to create humorous absurdities like the "Liberal-Friendly Pledge", those dead white men with imperialistic ideals (our founding fathers) actually got it right.
Pacridge said:I take it history wasn’t your strongest subject in school. The Pledge of Allegiance was written 1892 and didn’t include the words “under God.” The words "under God" were added in 1954 by President Eisenhower. Kind hard for our founding fathers to “take serious” something that didn’t exist- isn’t it?
http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/usconstitution/a/pledgehist.htm
mmatejka said:I know it sounds corny...but as someone who is currently living outside the country, I have realized how blessed we are to be Americans (for those of us who are...)
Pacridge said:I take it history wasn’t your strongest subject in school. The Pledge of Allegiance was written 1892 and didn’t include the words “under God.” The words "under God" were added in 1954 by President Eisenhower. Kind hard for our founding fathers to “take serious” something that didn’t exist- isn’t it?
http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/usconstitution/a/pledgehist.htm
mmatejka said:Thank you for the correction. Actually, I did well in history...I just did not do well in REMEMBERING it!
Leave out the founding fathers, then. Eisenhower was a great man...and I stand by my former statement. This nation needs to remember from whence it came. The pledge surely mirrored the sentiments of our founding fathers, though.
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