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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whether you say the pledge or not is your business.  But, sitting during the pledge is disrespectful--and any "educated" eprson would know that.

just like you don't talk during a prayer--even if you are an atheist.  It is disrespectful to those around you.

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Most forms of protest are “disrespectful “  but it’s not dishonoring vats.[/quote]the

Ask the Vietnam vets about what dishonoring vets means.

And, the "vet" who posted said that most vets feel the same way he does.  I strongly disagree and I am married to a highly educated vet who cannot believe it when people choose to disrespect the flag.

Of course, they have the "right" to do it.  It doesn't mean it is not disrespectful.  It also doesn't mean that most vets feel the way he does.  [/quote]

I'm not sure which vet you're talking about about but you're assuming that vet is a male. I'm a vet and I've posted twice, once about not saying the pledge in hs yet still managing to serve for 8 years and once about military members trying to make sure they are inside at "retreat." I am a woman. It discredits your argument when you make broad assumptions about the gender of service members and/or their commitment to country over something so trite as "the pledge" or even retreat. You really have no idea. I support(ed) and defend(ed) the Constitution, and took the oath to it and it says people have freedom of speech, the right to assemble, etc. I do not worry nor find it "disrespectful" when someone chooses not stand for the pledge or the national anthem, yet I do both.  I don't even worry whether they kneel. It bothers me not because that is what I fought for, their right to choose.

I do find it rather hypocritical when the same people bleating about standing/saying the pledge, and how disrespectful it is not to stand, or whatever, wear those God awful flag shirts/shorts, etc. Guess what, that too is actually against the rules as per the US Flag Code (Public Law 94-344 https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/celebrate/flagdisplay.pdf). I don't worry about them either because again, I care more about someone's freedoms than whether they are obeying an archaic flag law.

Oh and for that ridiculous person blathering about how I must be a terrible parent or whatever, my child and I do stand for the pledge along with the national anthem. We also don't wear flag clothes. It's really not about that and if you can't see why I have no problem with those who choose differently then I really can't help you. [/quote]

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