Question: Did you have prayer in school?

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52. I honestly can't remember.

I went to public schools in a small, rural area of NE Ohio, started in first grade in 1955. I don't remember it on a daily basis or maybe it only occurred for the first couple of years, I'm uncertain. But I do remember that the times we were supposed to be praying, I would pretend My father was an atheist and taught all of us kids to never do anything just because someone tells you to do it. He said, "Be a leader and not a follower." Of course we all turned out to be liberals.

A cute anecdote: I had one brother who was only a year older than me. I was in the first grade and he was in the second and before a Christmas lunch the teachers in charge asked "Anyone who is Catholic raise your hand." I guess the lunch was on a Friday and the Catholics wouldn't be getting any meat products. So I, not knowing what the hell a Catholic was, looked down the table and saw my brother raising his hand and I thought, well, I must be Catholic, so I raised my hand." Shit. I got tuna for lunch.