I always said it right, but I had a few weird beliefs about the pledge.
For one thing, my family was democrat (and I thought political party was genetic so I was automatically a democrat), so when I learned about republicans and democrats in third grade I thought it was wrong to say the part that goes "and to the Republic for which it stands" because I wasn't republican! Why do they get a line in the pledge, and not the democrats?
A childhood belief about the pledge
others believed things like this
- I used to believe "Pedestrians" was a political party like Democrats or Republicans.— August
- I used to think Star Wars wis Democrat vs. Republican because they would talk about the Republic.Anon
- I used to believe that the "Pledge" of Allegiance had something to do with our "Pledge" cleaner. — Pledge
- Through second grade I always concluded the pledge with '...indivisible, with liberty and just a straw.'— George
- 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 believe it was illegal to not recite the pledge at school. Anon