This would work for me - "Upgrading the Pledge of Allegiance."

You know, thinking back, I remember in Catholic school/elementary school, going out to say the Pledge of Allegiance in the morning as they hoisted the flag. And singing the Marine Corps hymn as well. You know, in hindsight, doing that as a kindergartener/1st grader/elementary school kid... that's some kinda creepy brainwashing stuff. Well, if you're gonna trust anybody with indoctrination, you've probably gotta go with the Catholics. At least they weren't Jesuits... I'd probably still buy into all that stuff if it were.

Agoraphilia: Upgrading the Pledge of Allegiance:

"Field testing and theoretical musing convinced me, however, that I needed to have another go at debugging the Pledge of Allegiance. I here offer an upgrade for 2008:

"I pledge allegiance to the laws of the United States of America, on condition that it respect my rights, natural, constitutional, and statuory, with liberty and justice for all."

This next site has a touch of the wacky, but has some great, lesser known history of the development of the Pledge... and some great photos.

Pledge of Allegiance - shocking photographs exposed here. News, reference material, library, links, collections, in this Pledge of Allegiance homepage.

The Pledge was the origin of the Nazi salute and "military socialism" as promoted by Francis Bellamy of the Youth's Companion, Edward Bellamy of Looking Backward, and other socialists in the USA, exposed here by Dr. Rex Curry.