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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 4117770" data-attributes="member: 35036">I’ve never understood the point behind saying the pledge of allegiance every day, maybe more than once a day. In my head it’s a pledge of allegiance. If you gotta say it every day to remember that you’re being true to your country, there’s a problem. Flag etiquette is extremely important, as is history. Everybody should know how to fly the flag, when not to, how to fold it, store it, what flags are to be flown when, when to retire it, what to do when the national anthem is being played (most people seem to not know), and so on. But I have never understood the repetition of the pledge of allegiance. That would be like being a Christian, waking up and getting baptized every single morning while you’re waiting for your coffee to brew. Now, I know that would be high cotton for some Southern Baptists, but let’s be honest, that would be a little ridiculous. The entire time I was in the Marines we didn’t have to recite it after learning about it and reciting it once in boot camp, just to ensure everyone knew it. I could see little kids getting a class on American history where they need to know flag/anthem/pledge basics, and perhaps saying the pledge the start of each school year afterwards, but what we have today/had 20 years ago seemed excessive. Am I missing something?</blockquote>