Reply #15: Pledge in 1958 [View All]

[rogue_bandit]

I took my first pledge in 1958, I think. Then there was no mention of "under god".

In the fifth grade I was almost failed because I had to recite and print the pledge in a test. I failed the test because I couldn't get the "under god" part into my memory....I learn a thing once, say it several hundred times and then they want to change it on me. They tried, and succeeded, in shaming me. I will never forgive them for that.

Now I am a city councilmember. The Mayor leads us in the pledge before every council session. I skip the "undger god" part if I can remember to because that is not the pledge I took first. I would complain, as the man in the article apparently did, but I need to have what little power I do have to make progress on the more essential issues like housing the unhoused, feeding the unfeed, protecting the unprotected, employing the unemployed, educating the uneducated, encouraging public participation, etc.