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To: JDN who wrote (168480)	6/5/2006 12:56:14 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 793916

Some people have religious objections to saying the Pledge, even before "under God" was added. Jehovah's Witnesses, for one. Doesn't mean they don't love America. I used to have a philosophical objection to saying the Pledge during the Civil Rights era. Where I lived, there wasn't justice for black people. Our principal flew a Confederate flag on the flagpole above the American flag, to symbolize his antipathy to integration. I used to remain standing during the pledge but not say it when I went to that school, and if anybody asked me why, I'd tell them. I never got into any serious trouble. My teachers liked me. Kids used to tell me, in private, that they admired me for saying what I thought. I love America. Even say the pledge, now. One of the things I love about America is tolerance for dissent.

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