thethuthinnang ⁂ on Nostr: As a child who was required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day in ...

As a child who was required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day in elementary school in the USA, I misunderstood the line “and to the Republic for which it stands” as “and to the Republic for Witches’ stands.” I assumed we were all witches and that I would one day be able to fly until my teacher explained to me that we were never going to do anything so interesting in our lives but would be expected to work and pay taxes until we were exhausted and died.