The Pledge of Allegiance
George Armstrong Custer
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Dateline: Wednesday August 18 (Day 1002)
Location: Fort Irwin, San Bernardino County, California
Reporter: George Armstrong "Old Man" Custer
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS--
ONE NATION UNDER GOD,
INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag"
What do those words mean to you? To me they say, "Thank you, America, for your strength, your courage and your freedom...which has been a beacon to the world for two hundred years."
"Of the United States of America"
Whose bright stars are fifty states... each bearing its own stamp of individuality. People...two hundred million strong... people who have come to her from all corners of the earth.
"And to the republic for which it stands"
A land of laws... with an ingenious system of checks and balances that allows no man to become a tyrant... and lets no group prevail... if their power is not tempered with a real concern for the governed... A land where the right of dissent and of free speech is jealously guarded... where the ballot box is the sword... and the people its wielder.
"One nation under God"
A land where freedom of worship is a cornerstone of her being... A land graced with temples and churches, synagogues and altars that rise in profusion to embrace all the religions of the world.
"Indivisible"
A land forged by the hot steel of raw courage... and formed forever... by the awful crucible of civil war.
"With liberty"
Where man in pursuit of an honest life will not be denied his chance... where her citizens move freely within her vast borders without hindrance or fear... A land brimming with opportunity... where freedom of choice is the guide for all.
"And justice"
The courts of our land are open to all. Its wheels of justice grind for all couses... all people. They look to every avenue for justice... every concern of the law... and they temper their reasoning with mercy..."
"For all!"
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG...
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS...
ONE NATION UNDER GOD...
INDIVISIBLE...
WITH LIBERTY... AND JUSTICE...
FOR ALL.
Okay, so this is some RL stuff. What does it mean to you?
How much of that do you bring with you to the game? What kind of game do you play, what kind of players do you like to align yourself with? What kind of country do you want to "live" in and play for? What kind of leaders do you want, and what kind of leadership do you expect of them?
George Armstrong "F-Bomb" Custer
USCongressman, Oklahoma (2x)
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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
"Indivisible" is someone spelling "Invisible" wrong
Wish your articles still had substance.
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The pledge is unEmerikan and I refudiate your socialist propaganda. lol
stop trolling you trolls! custer, good article. +1
Stop trolling us Blazingstar.
I kind of like the original version, before the religious wackos messed up the cadence in the 1950s:
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS--
ONE NATION, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
I have always liked the West Point motto: Duty, Honor, Country
Viva la eIsrael!
role playing much?
role playing much x2
+1
hmm... role playing.. in a game where players use names not their own to pretend to run companies and run for political office and have countries and wars... now why ever would roleplaying enter into such a scenario? -|- the real questions of the day are, why would the same people continue to troll a writer's work even when he offers fluff of no serious consequence, and how can they manage to still argue whether or not the sky is blue and find fault in publishing the Pledge of Allegiance (other than the reasonable argument of whether or not the word "God" should be included). -|- my question to America stands: What kind of game do you play, what kind of players do you like to align yourself with?
I vaguely remember a lecture along these lines and with about as much weight, consequence and fau😜hilosophical solipsism from Elementary School... Great Article! +1!
Many people do not know that, prior to the Nazi taking control in Germany, as you recited the pledge and said, 'I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG....' You extended your arm, palm up toward the flag. With the advent of the Nazi salute, which was arm extend, palm down, fingers up, the arm extending was dropped like a hot rock
**LOL** serious? I know our RL American history is not squeaky clean and there are some "odd facts known by few" that'll just set a patriot on their heels, but I had never heard this one. "Palm up" reminds me of church, where the more faithful in the front rows raise their arms, hands palms up, in a gesture of devotion. Of course we all know that the Nazi Swastika is a variation on a very old mystical symbol found on both this and the European continents, that symbol now abandoned due to the bad rep it got.
The thing is, this has nothing to do with eRepublik, as this 'pledge' clearly refers to the RL USA.
nice speed reading, Garven. perhaps you missed this part-- it starts off in bold text: Okay, so this is some RL stuff. What does it mean to you?
How much of that do you bring with you to the game? What kind of game do you play, what kind of players do you like to align yourself with? What kind of country do you want to "live" in and play for? What kind of leaders do you want, and what kind of leadership do you expect of them?
mm mind you the United States has About 315 million people now...perhaps its more like 311 or 312, but...
Strange but true...I have a picture of my father and his brothers in a one room school house with their arms extended toward the flag...my father said that stopped around 1935 or 36 when Hitler began to rise...my father and 5 brothers went to war and only my father and one brother survived...