Reply #10: I say the pledge

[rogue_bandit]

I say the pledge twice a month before council meetings. I feel strange about it, since I believe you pledge once and after that it's a matter of your own conscience, but these people seem to think it is important to make the same pledge over and over again.

I don't say, "under God" at those plegdes because that was not my original pledge. I am 57 years old. My first years of school did not include "under God" in the pledge. When the new rule came into place I was made to feel like an idiot because I could not remember to include "under God" in the written test of the pledge (required to move on to the next grade level).

No one has called me on it yet at council meetings, though I can certainly hear the absence of my vocal vibrations as the "under God" part of the group pledge.

It feels odd, but you know what? I am still proud to live in my neighborhood, city, county, state and country...indeed I am proud to live on Earth. Given the history of human laws and social customs, we are doing well. 227 years ago humans started a new experiment. The principles are still around for anyone to see, many people are giving their lives to further those principles, and many people are sacrificing their family's fortunes to see that those principles continue to be experimented with.