You will not believe what my in laws did before dinner.

[DENVERPOPS]

102. I am old enough

that I think I remember that in the 50's the addition of, "Under God" was added after "one nation"......

In the mid sixties, my best friend was next to me in a school assembly. We stood to say the pledge of allegiance, and my friend politely stood at the end of the outer row of seats, put his hands at his sides and did not recite the pledge to the U.S. of America.
A teacher standing next to him, one of those rah rah America assholes, grabbed him and threw him against the wall, hit him several times and cursed him in front of the other 1500 students as a hippy, anti-American, anti Vietnam asshole and grabbed him and took him to the Asst. Principals office and they both continued their verbal assault on him........He politely asked to use the phone to call his father.
They said yea, get him in here, we want to have a talk with him too!!!!!!! My friend called his father, explained how he was being physically and verbally abused for not saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America........
He told the teacher and the Asst. Principal that his father said his father would drop everything, and be there in fifteen minutes.
The Asst Principal's office windows did not face the front of the building or he and the teacher would have literally shit their pants to see a Chauffeured driven Limousine pull up in front of the school, displaying the canadian flags waving on all bumpers.
Long story short, his father was head of the Canadian Government's Office for the City of Denver.........My friend was a Canadian citizen.
His father demanded a written apology from each of the two, and a letter of apology from Kenneth Oberholtzer the superintendent of the entire Denver Public Schools to be on his desk by four that afternoon. Period. All three letters arrived before four.

True Story...............

Another story re: that same Assistant Principal, Erik Holland, (who actually even looked like an arian nation Nazi Officer.........)
The editor of our school newspaper wrote an op-ed regarding one of Holland's actions he implemented at our High School.....
It was well written, very tactful and diplomatically questioning (not criticizing) Erik Holland's actions. Erik Holland got wind of the article, met the news paper's printer's delivery van at the un-loading dock, and had 3000 copies of that edition of the school newspaper taken by custodians down to the furnace and burned.

LOLOLOL........The student editor had kept copies of the op-ed he wrote. That same afternoon, after school, the student editor took a copy downtown to the Editor of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News and told them Erik Holland, Assistant Principal of Washington High school, had burned every single newspaper earlier that day because of his article...........Their reaction was un-believeable, writing a front page article, in their next editions, about what had happened, and questioning if the Assistant Principal, who had a Doctorate degree, had ever the read the U.S. Constitution, particularly the parts about freedom of the Press, and Freedom of Speech.........(And that Assistant Principal STILL didn't get demoted or fired for censoring the "press".....)

Another True Story......