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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No child has to say it; they do have to stand, though.

I am very conservative and yet I think it's a little creepy to pledge allegiance to a flag. I love our flag and I love seeing it fly, but there's something about chanting the pledge that I do find a bit odd. It is tradition, though, so I don't get too worked up about it. [/quote]

The flag is obviously symbolic. You are not pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth, but rather to what the piece of cloth symbolically represents: a nation that stands for "liberty and justice for all". I am an atheist and have no problem with the "under God" line. It is a tradition. You are not required to worship or anything. It is part of our culture and tradition as Americans citizens to learn and recite the pledge as kids.[/quote]

THIS! I never quite grasped what was so important about a flag such as why it is a big deal to let it touch the ground ect. I understand if you are military this is a huge deal to you so please, don't start. But anyway, I think that if the flag was to, for example, touch the group, why would it matter, it is symbolic. It is not as if your rights are being taken away. If we had no flag as a nation, we would still have the same laws and rights. If you served in the military, you are still just as respected as you would have been otherwise, the flag is in a way irrelevant [/quote]

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