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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/
tblue37
(65,394 posts)on Johnny Carson's Tonight show. The little boy drew a blue circle on his paper illustrating a Christmas Carol and told his puzzled teacher that was "Round John Virgin."
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)I was too young to know that couldn't be right.
BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)Their writing was always a chore to decipher (I became good at decoding after a few years) but I was often rewarded with a few giggles.
TlalocW
(15,383 posts)I thought we were invisible under God for some reason.
TlalocW
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)Richard Stands was...as in "and to the republic for Richard Stands."
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(47,486 posts)We need to collect these pearls of wisdom
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)It made me picture a bunch of Halloween witches around a big cauldron on a tripod stand. What witches had to do with anything made no sense to me, but as a 5-year-old in kindergarten, the whole pledge was a bunch of gibberish to me.
question everything
(47,486 posts)Thanks for making my day