Does anyone else have a problem with children saying the Pledge of Allegiance?

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78. I have a problem with it:

I said it every goddamned day I was in school.

And then, in 6th grade, while the girls were in "health class",

(learning about menstruation, 'cause their parents were too disgusted with biology to explain it themselves...)

We boys were taken to the Gym and indoctrinated into the "domino theory"

(Chinese and Russian commies killing and raping kangaroos after sodomizing the entirety of southeast asia)...

AND THEN:

A mere 6 years later (!!!) I volunteered to go to Viet Nam.

I boarded the plane like a medicated cow, comforted in the idea that I was going to live up to the Pledge.


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"Blood. A necklace on me all my life."

(Michael Ondaatje, Memoirs of Billy the Kid.)


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Fuck the Pledge. Spill your blood where you will.

But don't do it on MY account.

And don't do it over some bullshit pledge to a flag that means exactly dick these days.

Maybe that's all it ever meant.


YMMV