{"id":2411,"date":"2002-06-28T07:11:30","date_gmt":"2002-06-28T12:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2002-06-28T07:11:30","modified_gmt":"2002-06-28T12:11:30","slug":"waxed_pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/28\/waxed_pledge.html","title":{"rendered":"Waxed Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

More interesting history of the Pledge of Allegience<\/a> in the pages of Reason<\/i>. Among other tidbits are indications that the Pledge may have been used to sell more flag, and that the author considered including “equality” and “fraternity” in the Pledge, but decided that might be deemed too radical (not to mention, in these latter days, sexist).<\/p>\n

However, as the Reason <\/i>article notes, <\/p>\n

We often pretend otherwise, but cultural meaning trumps everything else, from taste to law. In the case of the Pledge, the meaning lies less in the words \u2013 which may well lose their resonance in rote repetition \u2013 than in their performance. The fact that the Pledge had a substantially different meaning to its author than it does to its admirers is insignificant; the fact that a godless Pledge was good enough for, say, the generation that fought World War II is beside the point. Americans are almost unique in pledging allegiance to a flag, but they have come to impute significant meaning to their rite, and to associate it with their national identity.<\/p>\n

(Via InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More interesting history of the Pledge of Allegience in the pages of Reason. 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