Comments on: Since When Did Our Schoolchildren Have to Hide in the School Attics To Recite Our Pledge?

By: Ted Tedesco

Ted Tedesco — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:59:08 +0000

Don’t forget to check out the pro Pledge blog at:

SaveThePledgeOfAllegiance.blogspot.com

Semper Fidelis,
Ted Tedesco
USMC (Retired)

By: Ted Tedesco

Ted Tedesco — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:49:00 +0000

Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate the support. I just opened a blog on the fight to return the Pledge to the classroom in Woodbury, Vermont. You will find community contact informtion and more truth posted at my blog. Best wishes, Ted.

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:10:22 +0000

Schools have gone out of their way to teach our children the “evils” that our forefathers perpetrated. It is amazing that our country is treated so disrespectfully by the very people that profit from it.

I was amazed when I sat in a 1st grade classroom last week. First, I was able to admire the artwork of the students, who had lovely pictures of the “peaceful” Aztecs being bombed by the evil and greedy Spaniards (the pictures were accompanied by essays, so the greedy and evil and bombs were actually the 1st grader’s words, not mine). Then, I was treated to the lecture on Roanoke Island. It was then that I learned that the first settlers disappeared because they were “rude” to the Indians. (No Virginia Dare in the lecture, which as the first European babe born in North America, she used to warrant a mention).

Our school system is failing to teach our children to have a sense of pride in their nation. While they now highlight some of the shameful parts of our history, the utterly fail to educate our children about the vastly more significant good points of our country.

Obama not wearing the flag pin – frankly, I was OK with that. But, let me explain. I do not believe that he actually has any pride in his country. If he wore the pin, it would only be “for show”. I don’t want him to sully the flag like that.

Regarding the growing number of people offended by the mention of God -
John Adams – “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” –October 11, 1798

The Constitution gives people the freedom of religion, not from religion. I never understand why people actually get offended by a Christmas tree, or even just the word Christmas. I have never been offended by a minorah. If someone wishes you a Merry Christmas, and you don’t celebrate Christmas, accept is in the spirit it was intended – well wishes. Don’t jump down the throat of the well wisher.

By: RetFireman

RetFireman — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:44:54 +0000

The bigger question is, where are we as a country when people and children are offended by our own flag? Used to be that people were offended by other flags from countries such as the U.S.S.R, Iran, China, etc.

Now, they proudly wave the Mexican flag, the Palestinian flag, Chinese flag and yes, even the red Hammer and Sickle flag of the former Soviet Union and claim that Old Glory is an embarrassment and a symbol of oppression, racism, and so many other horrible lies.

Then again, there are a growing number of people that are actually offended just by the mere thought of God. When God becomes offensive along with the flag of your own country, what else is there? The numbers grow daily to where we now have an elected President who does not feel it necessary to wear a flag on his lapel, and refuses to salute the flag out of fear of offending someone.