About the Pledge of Allegiance

A local city council decided to not include the pledge in opening its meetings. Which, of course, Whiny Donny had to stick his neck and complain.

But what I like is a letter published today in the StarTribune:

In 1966 I was a temporary fourth grade teacher in Savannah, Ga., before being reassigned to teach in a high school. At that time, elementary students in Georgia were required to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag each morning before class. I wondered what my students thought of the pledge and what they were saying, so I had them write down the words as they heard them. Understandably the words “allegiance,” “indivisible” and “republic” were spelled creatively but the most creative interpretation of the pledge was a boy who wrote “I lead the pigeons to the flag of the United States of American.”

http://www.startribune.com/readers-write-patriotism-and-the-pledge-of-allegiance/512553682/