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PatrickforO

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1. I can remember saying the pledge every day in elementary school, but not

Reply to Feeling the Bern (Original post)

Sun Aug 16, 2015, 10:53 PM

Aug 2015

junior high or high school. Except at assemblies. We said it there.

Funny how you say the words but only realize what they mean years later. That's why I'm supporting Bernie. He's the best chance we have to actually make the pledge a reality instead of the corporate abomination it's actually become.

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history of the Pledge [View all] Feeling the Bern Aug 2015 OP

I can remember saying the pledge every day in elementary school, but not PatrickforO Aug 2015 #1

In the late 70s they still said it in my high school. They did, I did not. CBGLuthier Aug 2015 #5

As long as I can remember, I objected to the "under God" being in the pledge Hydra Aug 2015 #2

I pledged allegiance to the Constitution when I was inducted into the military in the early '70s... Journeyman Aug 2015 #3

If the pledge said this: Feeling the Bern Aug 2015 #4