The Pledge to the Flag is bullcrap. Line by line analysis.

[hunter]

13. Never said it as a kid.

Growing up Jehovah's Witness was... interesting.

Didn't want to disappoint God by reciting the pledge or acknowledging it in any way

In fourth grade I remember being extremely embarrassed when my teacher pointed me out as an example of religious freedom in the U.S.A.. I was already considered a weird kid and this only added to my aura of weirdness.

Later my mom got kicked out of the Witnesses because she couldn't stay out of politics. Then we were Quakers. They weren't keen on the pledge either.

When I was teaching the local patriotic evangelical Christians were upset that most teachers weren't saying the pledge in their homerooms so they convinced the principal to have kids say the pledge over the school's public address system. The loudspeaker in my classroom was broken, rats or squirrels had chewed through the wires years before and it wasn't likely to be repaired anytime soon, so I simply didn't worry about it.