So glad you included the history of the "pledge", the wording of which was originally very different. The so-called "flag code" is not a legal thing, btw: merely an advisory thing. It has no legal ramifications. You can salute or not, say the pledge or not. As a Quaker, I do neither (though I stand in respect to the people I am with…
So glad you included the history of the "pledge", the wording of which was originally very different. The so-called "flag code" is not a legal thing, btw: merely an advisory thing. It has no legal ramifications. You can salute or not, say the pledge or not. As a Quaker, I do neither (though I stand in respect to the people I am with if the circumstances are formal). The pledge is not one of our founding documents, and should not be confounded with them. It is about a piece of cloth that is a symbol with varying meanings to different people.
So glad you included the history of the "pledge", the wording of which was originally very different. The so-called "flag code" is not a legal thing, btw: merely an advisory thing. It has no legal ramifications. You can salute or not, say the pledge or not. As a Quaker, I do neither (though I stand in respect to the people I am with if the circumstances are formal). The pledge is not one of our founding documents, and should not be confounded with them. It is about a piece of cloth that is a symbol with varying meanings to different people.