I’m making this blog because I am tired of people using their freedom of speech (something American men and women fought for) to try to take something American away. Recently a group in Massachusetts has tried to ban children from having to say the pledge of allegiance. Apparently it has no educational value, and they feel like the child should have a right whether to say the pledge or not. So we believe we should give the child a choice whether or not to say the pledge, yet we can’t give our child the choice whether or not he wants to go to school, what kind of food he wants to eat, whether or not he wants to take a shower. It never ceases to amaze me the things that people MAKE children do, and the things people believe children should have a choice on. The flag of the United States of America stands for freedom. Men and women have died for the freedoms that the flag supports, and yet Americans have problems pledging allegiance to a country they live in. I no longer believe that all gave some but some gave all. I now believe that some give all and others take all and give nothing. America needs to wake up and start to realize that there are people that are giving their lives for us and we should never forget that. We should not have any problems pledging to the flag in fact we should want to say the pledge.