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To: Eleutheria5

Perhaps you won’t see this as relevant. However, imagine children saying the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. Imagine Government employees reciting it in unison at some hour of the workday.

Perhaps it would change the way individuals think and organizations operate.


9 posted on 11/28/2024 9:46:57 AM PST by ChessExpert (The Democratic party must be destroyed.)
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To: ChessExpert

I used to say the Pledge in class every morning. Ideologically, it didn’t alter anything. Back when I was eleven, after reading most of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, I pointedly refused to stand for the star spangled banner, outraging my classmates and teachers. My father, back then already very left wing, managed to talk me out of it with a more penetrating interpretation of the last stanza “oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave,” as being a call for moral introspection, whether or not America was still “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” and after considering his insight, I relented. But the experience of being in the minority and refusing to conform based on (half-baked) principals did more for developing my personal courage than mere conformity ever would have.


10 posted on 11/28/2024 11:41:08 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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