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Pledge Of Allegiance! (by CookieRaider)

 CookieRaider 
10-Apr-13 11:17 pm
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.

 

 

 
 
 AprilLove 
10-Apr-13 11:22 pm
We are not one nation under "god" anymore. U.S has so many believers anymore.

 

 

 
 
 AprilLove 
10-Apr-13 11:26 pm
In the course of the 20th century, support for the pledge migrated from the collectivist left to the reactionary right. The original Bellamy pledge read: "I pledge allegiance to my flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all." In 1923 WASP nativists prevailed in having "my flag" replaced by "the flag of the United States of America," to make sure that young Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, among others, knew they weren't pledging allegiance to the old country. In 1954, Congress inserted the words "under God," following an influential sermon by a Protestant pastor who argued that the model for the United States in the Cold War should be ancient Sparta.

 

 

 
 
 AprilLove 
10-Apr-13 11:33 pm
I like this one better ----

I pledge allegiance to the people of the United States of America, and to the republic, for which we stand, one nation, part of one world, with liberty and justice for all.

 

 

 
 
 CookieRaider 
10-Apr-13 11:33 pm
@AprilLove: saddens me that they dont say it in schools hardly anymore.. Or the anthem.. We had to do both when I was in elemantry.

 

 

 
 
 AprilLove 
10-Apr-13 11:34 pm
We did to. But I wont allow my kids to say it because they are not old enough to know what it means or to choose thier faith. My children wont recite something that they have NO IDEA what it means

 

 

 
 
 JLaDawn 
10-Apr-13 11:41 pm
Lmao!!! Think ur kids understood the abc song when they first learned to recite it?

 

 

 
 
 AprilLove 
10-Apr-13 11:46 pm
There is a meaning behind the pledge of alligence & they will choose thier own faith Im not gonna have that pounded into them. They know the pledge of alligence, they just dont recite it.

 

 

 
 
 ThisIsALongUsername 
10-Apr-13 11:47 pm
Lmao!!! Think ur kids understood the abc song when they first learned to recite it?
Thats a tad bit different dont you think?....

 

 

 
 
 AprilLove 
10-Apr-13 11:47 pm
& Yes they understood that each letter represented a sound to make up WORDS

 

 



Last edited by AprilLove; 10-Apr-13 11:48 pm.
 
 
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