Firstly, it's very stupid when people don't stand up. I honestly thinks it's very disrespectful. I understand when someone feels like that the country isn't good right now so therefore they don't stand. But when I look around. They are looking down on their -blam!-ing phones not giving a shit. Now that's when I consider it disrespectful. We hear the announcements and say the pledge at the beginning of period 2. I have American History. Isn't it a bit ironic? This generation is totally -blam!-ed. They don't respect their country [b] AT ALL[/b]. Also, flag burners should also be punished. I'm not talking about jailing them, but fining them. ALSO PEOPLE WHO ARGUES AGAINST THE UNDER GOD IN THE PLEDGE. HERE: [quote]Declaration of Independence: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”. Read it. Self explanatory. Signed by the FOUNDING FATHERS. Here are more references to God found in the document: Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” Appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World” With a firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence” If you read the documents going back all the way to the first time when the founding fathers met. The documents states that congress opened up with prayer. The documents they wrote was heavily influenced by their religion. Thomas Jefferson, "The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses." "I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others." John Adams: Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopia – what a Paradise would this region be! Sources: Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Alberty Ellery Bergh, editor (Washington D.C.: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), Vol. XII, p. 315, to James Fishback, September 27, 1809. Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, editor (Boston: Grey & Bowen, 1830), Vol. III, p. 506, to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803. John Adams, Works, Vol. II, pp. 6-7, diary entry for February 22, 1756.[/quote]