As A Child... Did You Understand The "Pledge Of Allegiance"?

[arwalden]

Poll question: As A Child... Did You Understand The "Pledge Of Allegiance"?

It's sad to say, but I didn't understand the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance until I was in high school.

Prior to that, I was merely parroting the syllables that I had been instructed to repeat. These meaningless fragments were recited in a slow rhythmic pace as written below:

I plejah leejunce.
To the flag.
Of the United States.
Of America.
And to the republic.
For which it stands.
One nation.
Indivisible.
With liberty.
And justice.
For all.

It's bad enough that children recite the pledge by repeating these meaningless sentence fragments. But it's REALLY embarrassing when I heard ADULTS---our own senators, even---who recite the pledge in the same rote, sing-song, childlike manner.

(By the way: These little 3 and 4-word sentences remind me a lot of how Bush reads his prepared statements. This is a BIG clue to his intellectual capacity.)

It's "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."