"Reciting patriotic pledges is no different than reciting your last name (a 'Pledge' of respect for your ancestry) or calling someone 'Sir' or Ma-am'. It's called respect, and it's important to pass along."
Is this generally believed to be true? If so, I now understand why people think I'm so strange for not reciting the pledge of allegiance. I am fully aware that precision in the English language is degrading quickly, and that causes many misunderstandings. In the past, a "Pledge" was more or less synonymous with an "Oath." If the words to the Pledge went something more like, "I hereby i
