From our history section: The Founding Fathers would have loathed the idea of the marketing ploy that became the Pledge of Allegiance (the history of which most Americans know nothing about)…

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Interesting reads here:

https://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/national-traditions/pledge-allegiance.htm

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2018/11/the-founding-fathers-never-pledged-allegiance-to-the-flag.html

From NPR:

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/09/11/160936717/politics-the-pledge-and-a-peculiar-history

Finally:

https://michaelbrant.com/2019/09/4-reasons-i-dont-say-the-pledge-of-allegiance-and-you-shouldnt-either/

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