I Wonder How Many Kids Pledged Like This Today?
November 19, 2015
I am not old enough to remember saluting the flag like this when I was in school. Since we now live in a fascist state, perhaps we should bring back the old Pledge salute. The sad thing about the Pledge is that some of its biggest supporters are conservative Christians.
Update: several have written to say that they are old enough to remember doing this. Others said that they have parents who told them that they remember doing this. I suppose that some will still refuse to believe it. Probably the same people who refuse to believe that all drugs were once legal in this country.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
Don't Worry, I Won't Bother to Reply