re: Would you be bothered if you learned your son/daughter didn't stand for the pledge?

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I would. I think it's an important step to unification of our country. We should all be proud. But there's a culture that would rather unite behind hate, anger, race, political party instead of acceptance and unification.

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It's swearing fielty to a government that has pissed on the people and their rights for my entire life. It has nothing to do with veterans or their sacrifices, which I support. The pledge says nothing about soldiers. It's the government and their flag which I have no allegiance to. I'm not pledging blind support to anybody. No real American would.

This would be more accurate:

They pledge allegiance to a flag of the United States Government
And to the republic, against those that stand
One nation, rejecting God, divisible
While destroying liberty and justice for all