The Pledge of Allegiance
Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 10:58PM "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for all."
this is the pledge that kids learn in school when they salute the US Flag.
Adults learn it either when their kids go to school here or when they study for the Citizenship test. In our case Jr. had already taught us the pledge and we were off to a good start on the Citizenship test knowing all about the Flag, the pledge, etc. etc. when she was still in pre-school.
The little one has been at school for four exact weeks (considering she missed the first few weeks because of the trip to India) and this week she was saying the pledge to herself while playing with stuffed animals.
She was trying to memorize it better! Initially we thought she was blabbering something but when we asked her to say it, she put her hand on her heart and did it..
except for one mistake..
she said ".......indivisible, With Little bit of Justice for all."
instead of Liberty and Justice for all.
Jr. pounced on her school teacher style and said "Liberty! Its Liberty! Not Litle bit!!!" and has now fixed the small techicality..
This whole episode had me in spilts.. maybe we do have only a "little bit of justice for all"?!
Is my sarcasm rubbing off on the little one, a tad too early?
We are now aligned with Liberty folks.
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Reader Comments (4)
Hi Sundar,
Its been some months now I have been following ur blog. The recent post is so cute. But the rock star(Jane tu...) rocks. Her dance was soooooooo cute
Bless. How sweet is that. Little bit of justice for all. Absolutely gorgeous. She memorised all this in 4 weeks?!?!
Lots of justice is out of question. Little bit...hmm thats something that we can shoot for !! What say !!
And the power to rewrite the rules are with the young minds. Good beginning !!
:)
lahari, thanks.
wa, she is not three yet.. dont know what she will do when she is five.. Jr. scares me at 6. LO scares me at 3!
Kavi, funny thing you mention here.. the pledge is already in revision # 5 !!!! so why not the next rev?
:)