10 Things Americas don't know about America

[Lt. Fred]

No, it as Major Major he wouldn't let sign it. The whole thing was an effort to discredit Major Major and get his job.

...Why yes, I have read that book about a million times now, why do you ask?

Damn. I bow to thee.

[davedan]

I want eats.

Give everyone eats.

[MadCatTLX]

The idea of having kids take a nationalist pledge every morning in school is always extremely jarring to me.

I've always thought that it was weird thing for America to have because it seems like the sort of thing you would do in a communist country.

Funny thing about that, I remember reading somewhere that the USSR also had a pledge... that it made you say once. When you make people say it every day, especially when said people are often too young to understand what they're saying, it kinda loses all meaning. The book Catch-22 had a great bit about this with Captain Black's Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade.

The only other country I can think of that made children recite a pledge of loyalty every day was... Well there's a reason we changed the way we do the salute now, isn't there?

I remember in grade school they also made us recite the state pledge daily. Unfortunately I forgot it. I looked it up and apparently it's "I salute the flag of the State of Oklahoma. Its symbols of peace unite all people." I could of sworn it was something different.

[PosthumanHeresy]

The idea of having kids take a nationalist pledge every morning in school is always extremely jarring to me.

I've always thought that it was weird thing for America to have because it seems like the sort of thing you would do in a communist country.

Funny thing about that, I remember reading somewhere that the USSR also had a pledge... that it made you say once. When you make people say it every day, especially when said people are often too young to understand what they're saying, it kinda loses all meaning. The book Catch-22 had a great bit about this with Captain Black's Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade.

The only other country I can think of that made children recite a pledge of loyalty every day was... Well there's a reason we changed the way we do the salute now, isn't there?

I remember in grade school they also made us recite the state pledge daily. Unfortunately I forgot it. I looked it up and apparently it's "I salute the flag of the State of Oklahoma. Its symbols of peace unite all people." I could of sworn it was something different.

I love the picture of kids doing the original salute to the flag. It says everything needing said.

[Jack Mann]

The idea of having kids take a nationalist pledge every morning in school is always extremely jarring to me.

I've always thought that it was weird thing for America to have because it seems like the sort of thing you would do in a communist country.

Well, it was created by a socialist.