re: Would you be bothered if you learned your son/daughter didn't stand for the pledge?

I am a vet.

Hell yes I would want to know. Other people’s kids can do what they want/ what their parents want; that’s not my cross to carry. I feel bad for the OP.

Seriously, some of y’all are downright embarrassing. I can’t stand a lot of what is happening in our country, and it makes me sick to my stomach to see. With that said there is no way I am giving up on my country, my morals, or my beliefs. Throwing up your hands and just saying ’frick it’ is not an option for success. Just because things are not what we/I want doesn’t mean you give up. WTF kind of example are you setting for your kids when you do that?

Instead of rolling over because things suck ask yourself “what am I doing to change this?” Find something, even if it only affects a few folk, to show them this country and our way of life is worth fighting for. Show them what is right with this country, and how folk are working to right the wrongs that we see daily. We are more than the sum of some shithead politicians in this country. For almost 250 years men and women have stepped up against external and internal forces who want to take that away. Don’t give up on this place. Work to make it better, and then keep working until it is right.