SLIPPING in under the wire seems to be a specialty of mine. I graduated from public schools in 1953; “under God” was not inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954, soIama member of the last class to recite the old version. It’s still seared on my brain; now, whenever I have occasion to pledge allegiance, I always finish ahead of my juniors because I automatically leave out “under God.”
Having slipped in under the wire, I will now fall between the slats. I am on both sides of the Ninth Circuit’s ruling, and for all the wrong reasons.
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