The typical child does not have enough resources to live on their own. The professional athlete on TV can have millions. It’s interesting that some athletes (you know who you are) with all their money can’t show a small tribute to the their country while children with nothing can afford to give attention to words that make the America so wonderful.

I’m not totally sure why some Americans refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance and also dismiss our national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner. Maybe they can’t remember the words. So let’s go over some of the basics.

The Pledge of Allegiance
[stand and place your right hand over your heart]

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.

The Star-Spangled Banner
[stand and place your right hand over your heart]

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

I was fortunate to go to public schools that said the Pledge of Allegiance every day. One school I worked at not only said the Pledge daily, but also sang The Star-Spangled Banner. I would get a little teary-eyed.

I suggest to anyone who has issues with the Pledge of Allegiance and The Star-Spangled Banner to review the words. We shall go over their backgrounds in a future post, but let’s just say that America has survived hard times thanks to God’s help and the brave men and women who fought for the United States of America.