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re: In what grade did you stop saying the pledge of allegiance every day?
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:19 am to Tiger1242
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:19 am to Tiger1242
We had to say it all the way throughout high school every morning. Personally, I stopped saying it midway through high school when I realized how stupid and pointless it was.
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:33 am to Tiger1242
I don't remember saying it in high school but it may have been recited over the intercom.
The words "under God" were added in the late 50s to push back against Communist atheism but when I started school in the mid-60s some of the old teachers hadn't gotten the memo yet so I learned it first without those words.
The words "under God" were added in the late 50s to push back against Communist atheism but when I started school in the mid-60s some of the old teachers hadn't gotten the memo yet so I learned it first without those words.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:34 am to Tiger1242
We said it through my senior year of high school in 1995.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:43 am to Tiger1242
When I got to college. We said it throughout high school.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:47 am to Slip Screen
My country public school had a bunch of Baptist teachers. We said the pledge daily, sang patriotic songs, and the teacher led us in prayer before lunch.
The teachers often told us how sad it was that the Russians "brainwashed" their children. I'm sure it never dawned on them that they were doing the exact same thing.
The teachers often told us how sad it was that the Russians "brainwashed" their children. I'm sure it never dawned on them that they were doing the exact same thing.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:52 am to Tiger1242
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I’m trying to remember. I feel like I said it every day in elementary school and maybe stopped in Middle School?
We said it everyday through high school.
What commie school system did you grow up in?
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:57 am to fightin tigers
Pretty sure we said it all the way through my Senior year in high school in home room.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:16 am to Tiger1242
My junior year of college.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 10:05 am to Tiger1242
All the way through high school from what I recall.
Half of the people didn't bother saying it, not because they were unpatriotic, but because were too bored to say it.
Half of the people didn't bother saying it, not because they were unpatriotic, but because were too bored to say it.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 10:07 am to Tiger1242
Through High School in the mid 80's
Posted on 4/30/26 at 10:09 am to Tiger1242
Said every morning at the High school I teach at. Kids stand for it but mumble at best.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 10:14 am to Cheese Grits
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Our pledge of allegiance was studied by Hitler and was the basis for "Seig Heil"
Never heard that. Any proof?
Posted on 4/30/26 at 10:37 am to Tiger1242
I think it stopped in the 7th grade
Posted on 4/30/26 at 10:50 am to Cotten
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At least at the time, we said it all the way through High School in Ascension Parish
Yep graduated Sulphur High School in 1997 and we still said it every morning in homeroom over the loud speaker.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 11:50 am to Tiger1242
It was everyday in elementary school. Beyond that is just silly.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 11:51 am to Toroballistic
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Any proof?
Look up the Bellamy salute.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 12:05 pm to Tiger1242
College.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 12:08 pm to Cheese Grits
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Our pledge of allegiance was studied by Hitler and was the basis for "Seig Heil" and all that. While I appreciate the words of "patriotism" I find truth in those who live it in their personal actions when nobody else is looking.
None of what you wrote is true. You are an anti-American POS.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 1:49 pm to Toroballistic
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Never heard that.
The Bellamy Salute originated in America at the end of the 1800's. It was used from 1892 to 1942. From this Wiki link
Later, during the 1920s and 1930s, Italian Fascists and German Nazis in Europe adopted a similar salute that also resembled the Roman salute, a gesture attributed to ancient Rome. The introduction of the Nazi salute resulted in controversy over the use of the Bellamy salute in the United States, especially once the country entered the European theater of World War II after Germany and Italy declared war against the United States. The Bellamy salute was replaced with saluting the flag by placing the right hand over the heart when Congress amended the Flag Code on December 22, 1942.
As for the Nazi pledge, that is more from me being old. Seems in the 1950's and 1960's we were taught that Hitler "borrowed" from America, things like the salute and the pledge. We were taught to beware of pledges as Americans could be swayed by such and flags as the German people were heading into World War II. Was there fact in it that has been lost by mainstream history or it was a "fear tactic" in the Era of the Red Scare, hard to remember at my advanced age and memory.
The greater point was to not forget your people who made great sacrifice and to remain humble so America could not fall to the fate of Germany or Russia (later China).
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