I pledge allegiance....

[redhen]

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I hear ya. I wanna smack his little cartoon hiney...

 

[RabbitMage]

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Military boys: so good looking, so bad for me.

 

[Mahonri]

I pledge allegiance 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.

 

[RabbitMage]

Also, if I'm remembering right, there's no pause between "one nation" and "under God", even though everyone likes to put one there.

 

[annaraven]

I love reading/hearing people discuss the Pledge of Allegiance. Especially given its history

In any case, whether you take the pledge or not, I consider it appropriate to be respectful when in a group where a pledge or prayer is occurring, regardless of whether it fits my personal faith. So I'm with ya'll who want to backhand the disrespectful little sh*t.

Oh - and for those who care - I'm also a veteran, but my discharge came just before the first Gulf War, so I didn't serve in wartime.

 

[HHandbasket]

When I was a kid, we had students in our class who did not say the pledge for religious reasons. I cannot remember any of them EVER behaving disrespectfully like the child in the cartoon. Nowadays, kids/people seem to think that because they have the right to say no, that gives them the right to be jerks.

Well, I guess they have the RIGHT to be jerks... just like I have the right to recognize their jerkdom and point it out.

I support a person's right to opt out of the pledge for religious reasons (for those that don't understand why that is, it is because their beliefs view it as a sin to ally yourself with the American Government rather than with God, and the recitation of the pledge to the flag is, in TECHNICAL terms, worshipping a false idol, making a prayer of allegiance to that false idol... that is significantly frowned upon in those religious beliefs whose center focus is an allegiance to God rather than a government).

That being said, I don't support a person's right to be a weiner. The kid in the cartoon needs an attitude adjustment.

I respect and believe in reciting the pledge and made my kids do so when they were growing up. My husband is a veteran, and we fly a flag on our front porch every day, not just Flag Day, Veterans Day, and the 4th of July.

 

[Buster]

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Applause from Buster's corner.

 

[Buster]

Thanks so much to Dave and all other vets for their sacrifices in protecting my God-given unalienable liberties. Hats off to you!

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Is it just me or does that kid look like a young version of out last president?

 

[redhen]

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I care!...
Thank you!