I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag...

I pledge allegiance

to the Flag

of the United States of America,

and to the Republic

for which it stands,

one Nation

under God,

indivisible,

with liberty

and justice

for all.

This is the pledge as I remember reciting it each day in school. I don't remember exactly when that ended as a daily practice. Perhaps around 3rd grade. That would put it around 1971.

What do you say, Mark? Did we recite it in Mrs. Eckerd's class?

So, here is a story of how a small school in the small town of Woodbury, Vermont is mishandling the issue.

As an aside, way to go Ted Tedesco and other parents for trying to bring the practice back! Hang in there and keep fighting the good fight!

Maybe, just maybe, there is hope for our Republic after all.

CP