Do you stand during the Pledge of Allegiance?

In My Humble Opinion
101

They did that when I was in Ireland, summer of '83 IIRC. The first time it happened was so weird… we were dancing, then midnight struck, the song ended abruptly and the anthem came up. I stood with my hands behind my back; the guy I’d been dancing with asked why I hadn’t put my hand on my heart… uh, because it’s not my anthem and even if it had been, we don’t do that?

The few times I’ve been in a situation where the Pledge was recited I stood repectfully but again, not my country so I don’t say it.
ETA: you know, if Americans behaved the way Guns’n’Spot apparently thinks y’all should and kept moving until you find a place whose policies and laws y’all agree 100% with, there wouldn’t be SSM in the US… or heck, any of those Constitutional Amendments.

102

Im 36 years old and Australian, at my first primary school I don’t think we said a pledge. At the second primary school I attended,we had a weekly assembly on Mondays and we said the pledge, then sang the Australian National Anthem (both verses) and followed that up with God save the Queen. The principle was quite the Monarchist and Anglophile!

The Pledge -
I love God and my country
I honour the flag
I serve the Queen
and cheerfully obey my parents, teachers and the laws.

Don’t recall ever having to do it at high school

103

I stand.

104

It happens to be both.

Still waiting for that non-crazy reason, if you feel up to it.

105

Too many people think democracy in America means majority rules. It really means the minority gets to be heard.

106

No, it’s an opinion. A wrong opinion.

Funny how people in this thread object to meaningless rote repetition, and then you stop by for a bit of meaningless rote repetition.

As to the OP, I stand and recite, with my hand over my heart. Those who don’t want to do the same don’t have to.

Better people than you have died so you don’t have to.

Regards,
Shodan

107

At least I haven’t killed or maimed anyone.

108

I teach full time, and I won’t say it. I’m not pledging loyalty to a government that might do any manner of things in the future. Do we have more respect for the Japanese person who refused to support the war effort, or the one who went along with a war of naked aggression and land-grabbiness, out of loyalty?