I'm indifferent. And where is the beer option? Seriously, I don't see any real harm or scary nationalism in having a pledge. I think the sentiment is kind of nice in a hokey way. At the same time, I don't think it's terribly important for teaching our kids anything. I will say that the words "under God" were added in the 50's, break the meter of the whole thing and could easily go. It was kind of silly to to shoehorn it in the first time.
I don't understand the furor over any of this really, either way. I suppose people either want to think or do think that it seems a lot like 1984, but I've never been witness to it being such a nefarious influence. Like others have said, most kids do it without much thought, nor much thought asked of them.
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