All of this blogging about the “pledge” and b!X’s post about the time he refused to say it in high school reminds me of my checkered pledge past.
When I was a young student, we were a nation “indivisible” and not “under God.” No problem there for me. By the time I was a teacher and had to stand up with my class to say the pledge, the “God” thing had been inserted; no one ever noticed that, while my lips were moving, I wasn’t saying anything. Then came the Viet Nam war, and I was an Assistant 4-H Leader of a group of a half-dozen girls that included my daughter. I was protesting the war and refused to say the pledge. I’m probably the only 4-H leader that ever got fired for political insubordination. Heh.