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<p class="MsoNormal">Sarbajit wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">< As a non-American, I ask - what happened to the USA's "One nation under God ?"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance</a> ><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don\u2019t have a sense of how many schools still do this, in practice. Yes, it\u2019s wacky! My wife used to get in trouble in grade school for refusing to get up from her desk and say the pledge. Her dad, a Jewish veteran of WWII, would
bail her out from the principal\u2019s office and they\u2019d get ice cream.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I remember doing it a few times, and thinking, \u201cSeriously?\u201d<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">https://undergod.procon.org/additional-resources/state-requirements-on-pledge-of-allegiance-in-schools/#2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Marcus<o:p></o:p></p>
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