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An excellent idea and truly worthy of bringing this to the attention of our U.S. Senators and Representatives for consideration, as well as to the attention of President Trump for his consideration to help give the idea legs. These suggested small changes to the Pledge of Allegiance would help educate our children when they learn it.
1 posted on 07/19/2023 7:03:30 PM PDT by CDR Kerchner
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“the republic for which they stand,”

How many flags are we acknowledging?


2 posted on 07/19/2023 7:09:02 PM PDT by Yogafist
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When I saw the headline I expected the worst, but this is good.


3 posted on 07/19/2023 7:09:12 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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I do not support the “pledge” as written or with this amendment because it seems to contradict the plain duty of citizens set forth in the Declaration of Independence as follows:

“ That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness… But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

6 posted on 07/19/2023 7:20:41 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Make the GOP illegal - everything else will follow)
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I’ve always hated the pledge of allegiance.

I certainly don’t need to pledge allegiance to my birthright - the law of the land - and progressives certainly won’t pledge to something they believe also needs rewritten.

IMHO this is dumb.

The Russians had the right idea...


7 posted on 07/19/2023 7:23:36 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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What does this actually accomplish?

I think what we really need to do is hang a few people from Congress or the Bureacracy who’ve violated the oaths they took, which would hopefully make the rest of them think twice before doing so again.


8 posted on 07/19/2023 7:28:02 PM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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I pledge allegiance to the Constitution, from which our liberties are recognized as being imparted to us by Providence.


10 posted on 07/19/2023 7:29:29 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (#notmypedophile)
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We didn’t have one our first hundred years. It was started by a socialist. It has a collectivist air about it. They used to say it while doing a nazi salute until that had to end in 1942. I read that changed to the hand on heart thing in 42. Pappy Boyington was in China with the Flying Tigers AVG when that change happened. He was at a ballgame and didn’t put his hand over his heart. Some locals wanted to fight him!

The Founders didn’t need one...maybe we don’t.


11 posted on 07/19/2023 7:30:16 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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What we need is illegal now.


12 posted on 07/19/2023 7:32:05 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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“… one nation, indivisible…”

Personally, I would ditch “indivisible”. It’s time to cull the herd (expel some states or parts of states).


14 posted on 07/19/2023 7:46:27 PM PDT by Stingray51 ( )
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Love it!

I have taken many an oath to defend the CONSTITUTION of the United States.

BUT...

This dare not be attempted until we hold both houses of Congress and the White House!


15 posted on 07/19/2023 7:52:55 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Let’s do away with indivisible; I never say that word in the pledge, because it is false.


17 posted on 07/19/2023 8:14:22 PM PDT by rebel25 (No creative or funny tag line available now; please check again later...)
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I never quite understood pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth.


18 posted on 07/19/2023 8:19:22 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To heck with the Pledge of allegiance. Sing all four stanzas of the Star Spangled Banner instead.
24 posted on 07/20/2023 3:49:18 AM PDT by Stepan12 ("...To the American gulag with this guy.and with the beasts of the earth.")
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No need for any change.

...and to the Republic for which it stands

That covers the Constitution which formed the Republic.


26 posted on 07/20/2023 4:24:09 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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They need to remove "allegiance to the flag". A piece of cloth of cloth does not deserve allegiance. It need to read, "I pledge allegiance to the United States and to Constitutional governance...". Or something to that affect.

The Oath of Office for military officers is a good one.

Saying the pledge every day is an insult to people's intelligence, and resembles the NAZIS.

28 posted on 07/20/2023 4:41:07 AM PDT by GingisK
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The pledge is a new construct, used by commies to gain obedience to government. People already had loyalty to their birthright country, no pledge needed.


30 posted on 07/20/2023 4:53:38 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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A little info. The pledge was written by Francis Bellamy (1855-1931), a Baptist preacher who was a socialist and preached against capitalism. He hated America and joined the wave of Marxists who thought government was the answer to economics issues.


31 posted on 07/20/2023 4:56:51 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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I don’t understand... Most churches, and even the Pope embrace the homos... So why is God still a roadblock for these morons!!??


32 posted on 07/20/2023 4:59:52 AM PDT by sit-rep
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“..help educate our children when they learn it.”

These are the same public schools that want to turn our children into eunuchs and the parents have no say in the matter?


34 posted on 07/20/2023 5:03:48 AM PDT by Leep (What skill or service did the biden family have that netted them tens of millions of dollars?)
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Good idea!


37 posted on 07/20/2023 9:21:00 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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