Twilightprincess wrote:
Sonic200 wrote:
"for witches stand"
I have read that some kids thought that was in the pledge when they were little and said it in school.
My son thought that “for which it stands” was “for Richard Sands,” and that was just last year when he was in 4th grade.
Kids are awesome. I love this stuff.
He said to me: “Who the Hell is Richard Sands anyway?”
Only by hearing him repeat the Pledge could I understand what he was talking about.
My childhood self had no problem with that "and the republic for which it stands" part . It was that later part I could not figure out. How our nation could be "invisible".
"One nation, invisible, with liberty and justice for all".
Like...if you took a road trip north-south from Mexico, to Canada, or vice versa, you would go through the whole middle of the USA without seeing it? Because were an invisible nation? Like only we Americans are the only folks can SEE this place? But Mexicans and Canadians would just see fog? Actually that would be kinda cool. Only us initiates can see our own country. But that cant be it. I will just have to wait until I am a grown up to understand it I guess.
Wasnt until well into junior high (when we no longer did the POA) that Mom taught me that the word was "in DI visible".
I knew kids in high school who would get that part of the pledge wrong. They would think it was "individual" rather than "indivisible".