(02-05-2021, 04:12 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(02-05-2021, 03:42 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: In your opinion, I am curious what incentive young people have to love this country. Based on your logic, school aged children shouldn't even bother to learn the POA. How about the National Anthem? If you are promoting taking away all of the "repetitive" things that are reminders how much we love this nation, how do you expect people to love this nation in the first place?

I dunno. Maybe you are just lobbying to remove "old" people from having to repeat it and keep it in place for young people?

Their incentive should be to look around at the freedoms we have. Look at other countries like North Korea, Venezuela, Russia, China, African nations and so many others where they have little to no freedom, very few liberties and in way too many cases, little food or clean water. Be glad we live in a place where the overwhelming majority don't have to worry about such things. That should be plenty of incentive in my opinion. If they can't appreciate that, they shouldn't be here. I'm an advocate of being grateful for what you have. It can always be worse. Much, much worse. 

I don't even understand what you are saying about old people and young people?

The Pledge of Allegiance as well as the National Anthem are reminders of those very things.  Do you think that our freedom came "free"?  I don't think it's too much to ask to pause for less time than it takes to have a good bowel movement to acknowledge and remember the price that MANY paid in order for us to be free.

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