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11:12 AM Thursday, July 2, 2009

Once again, Steven Joyce makes it clear in his letter to the editor (“Only symbols”), published June 22, that he has nothing better to do than to take something millions of proud Americans believe in and tear it down — in an attempt to make himself appear more intelligent.

He wrote on how the Pledge of Allegiance was a corrupt ritual and how our glorious flag is just a symbol. He went on to say that claiming our soldiers died so we could have the privilege of saying the pledge freely was an insult to them.

Instead of looking at how the original pledge was worded, let’s take a brief look into what our Founding Fathers believed and founded our country upon.

Lucas Watkins

Middletown

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