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I have seen and heard this several times but I never get tired of it.

This is great!! How can anyone get tired of this?

It is always worth posting. JB, if anyone gets tired of it, they can kiss my big black......
I have some old videos of Reds show, the pledge is included in one of them. You should see my pops everytime he sees it. Crocodile tears man.

This may come as a surprise to some of you, but I'm a huge Red Skelton fan from way back, watching him as a kid. I, too, have some of the videos of the series.

I, too, respect this version of the Pledge. Red was one of the last of a generation of successful people who really meant what he said.

What I don't respect is what the Republican party and the far-right has done to destroy everything good Red mentions in this version. "...free from retaliation..." hmmmm.

I'm trying right now to relate what Red says here to the picture I just saw moments ago of a police office pointing a gun at a Cedar Rapids, Iowa resident trying to get back to his flood damaged house. I'm trying to relate what Red said about the people being represented with our going to a war of which nobody approved or voted for.

What Red is speaking of here is what we were at one time, not what we are now.

If Red were as sincere as I believe he may have been, I humbly believe he is rolling in his grave right now.

You see, I think Red actually had concern for those less fortunate. Something that has no place in the modern, far-right conservative philosophy of "I Got Mine".