When I was four years old and in kindergarten, I said the Pledge of Allegiance for the first time. That day after I got home, I asked my mother, "Why do we all talk to a flag? It's not alive." I believed that adults had been mistaken in thinking that a flag could hear us all talk to it.
A childhood belief about the pledge
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the "Pledge" of Allegiance had something to do with our "Pledge" cleaner. — Pledge
- I used to believe that a football ref's flag was a banana peel.Anon
- I used to believe New Zealand and Australia were part of the UK because they have a UK flag on their flags — H
- I thought the Pledge of Allegiance was "to the United Steaks of America," and that we were saying it to cows.— bessy
- I used to beleive when ppl didn't talk (deaf ppl) they lost their voice and could never talk again!— Tiara 10
- Olivia Newton John did sing let me hear your budgie talk! didn't she— J Scull