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In reply to the discussion: When did you learn, The Pledge of Allegiance....? [View all]bikebloke
(5,260 posts)40. First grade
...or maybe kindergarden.
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That was in 1954, and I suspect the nuns were worried that it wasn't Catholic Jesus they meant...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2020
#7
Me too-- I remember a certain amount of screaming from Jews and Catholics in NYC at the time...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2020
#11
No. And I think you are assuming something about the nuns that isn't true.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Sep 2020
#10
My bad wording. The Founders weren't thinking specifically about American Catholics, but about...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2020
#18
Yeah, but coins had it since the Civil War and we eventually put it everywhere thanks to ...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2020
#22
True enough. Just one less reason for it, and it does reduce internal strife a little.
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2020
#26
Before I started kindergarten in 1952. I had a plaque with the old wording on it.
rzemanfl
Sep 2020
#15
I never understood pledging allegiance to the flag. It's a piece of colored cloth, right?
Klaralven
Sep 2020
#29
First or second grade? My nieces kids are here and they say they learned in Kindergarten
lettucebe
Sep 2020
#31