The Pledge of Allegiance

From Don Surber we have a report on a League of Women Voters debate where someone asked about saying the Pledge of Allegiance.  The original source of this story is here.

The nice thing is that here we have a comment on the original post by Mr Shurber by the person who started "the problem", a fellow citizen, one who was born in Peru, and served ten years in the US Air Force Reserve, who asked about the Pledge and was surprised when it was not part of the program.  The People, in the auditorium, made up for that omission by saying the Pledge spontaneously.  I think that is nice.

At one level I don't care.  Having twice taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States I figure that I had pledged my allegiance to these United States and repeating it won't make it any stronger.  That said, I see great value in school children doing it every day until it becomes ingrained.

On the other hand, a large number of our fellow citizens tend to expect the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, be it at a VFW meeting or the local School Committee or some other common venue with a slightly patriotic flavor.  At a Tea Party Rally would not be inappropriate.

Hat tip to Instapundit.

Regards  —  Cliff