> Oh, yeah! We did that one, too. I knew there was a third kid up there with the flag bearers, but I couldn't remember for the life of me what that kid did. Now I remember. (I also remember that the kids thought that holding the Bible was an incredibly lousy job, compared to holding a flagpole that invariably dwarfed them.)
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> Ah, memories.
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> -Cynthia

One church my family went to when I was a kid did the three pledges. The kid's pastor would ramdomly choose kids to hold the flags and the bible, and one to dictate the pledges to the other kids, etc. Once I was chosen to dictate, and I must've been scared or something because I mumbled quite a bit. Then, to get me to loosen up a little, the kid's pastor starting dictating the pledges along with me, only SHOUTING. And everybody shouted them back. Very amusing.

Qua "I remember thinking that pledging allegiance to the Christian flag was weird too. Well intended, but weird." rtz