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hunter

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14. I grew up Jehovah's Witness and then Quaker.

Reply to DiverDave (Original post)

Fri Oct 20, 2017, 03:43 PM

Oct 2017

I was already a weird kid. Ignoring the pledge added to my aura of weirdness.

The pledge still troubles me, it seems something from an authoritarian dystopia. My mom remembers when she was a kid saying it with an arm extended salute. (That was before Hitler...) The Star Spangled Banner is an abomination, as music and as a national anthem.

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Schools can't compel standing for flag [View all] DiverDave Oct 2017 OP

Jehovah's Witnesses cite it as a religious freedom issue. NutmegYankee Oct 2017 #1

I never do janterry Oct 2017 #2

When my daughter had her first taste of school in the USA, she had no idea what the Pledge was DFW Oct 2017 #3

Hadn't heard "I spread the peaches"...... lastlib Oct 2017 #5

Her conversational English was good, but she had never lived in the States before DFW Oct 2017 #9

Smart girl! lastlib Oct 2017 #10

When your children grow up in a different culture DFW Oct 2017 #13

I pledged to the Flag once, how come I'm supposed to pledge every damn day?? Saboburns Oct 2017 #11

It's not like we rescind it at night DFW Oct 2017 #12

And more recently of course: TINKER vs Board of Ed FailureToCommunicate Oct 2017 #4

I replace god with dog. LiberalFighter Oct 2017 #6

No shit Corgigal Oct 2017 #7

#stopthedamnlying should be used whenever Trump tells a lie. riversedge Oct 2017 #8

I grew up Jehovah's Witness and then Quaker. hunter Oct 2017 #14