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Hi,

Many years ago, a friend's daughter, while in school, refused to say the
pledge (she was in the second grade, I think). When the teacher asked her
why, she said she was a citizen of the world, not just this country, and so
she couldn't say the pledge.

Of course she went on to become a homeschooler, until lately when she is
attending college.

I thought she was wonderfully clever to realize her allegiances so early in
life.

Connie


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In a message dated 9/5/02 12:32:53 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

<< My kids ain't pledging allegience to a country that only just
tolerates my prescence here.
>>

AMEN!!!
I think it's strange that we pledge allegiance to a FLAG. Seems that we're
just pledging our loyalty to a piece of cloth that stands for the
country...ok, it does say " AND to the republic for which it
stands."......still weird. I don't see how people think it's fine and dandy
to have young children pledging loyalty to something they don't even
understand. Sounds very Third Reich'ish to me.
It did increase flag sales for the guy though!!

Ren

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In a message dated 9/5/02 1:00:59 PM Central Daylight Time,
starsuncloud@... writes:


> Sounds very Third Reich'ish to me.
> It did increase flag sales for the guy though!!
>
> Ren

Did you read the part about how the *salute* used to be done? <g>
~Nancy


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