More and more we are losing our identity as a country. Removing the pledge of allegiance from our schools is just another example of the dumbing down of this sick society, no wonder we have Sick minded people burning the American flag and toting around some others flag taunting officials to use force to uphold the laws of this once great nation. No other free country has what America has to offer, but it should not be handed over so easily as if the very people who laid their lives and faught for our very freedoms, at the least they should respect its people and laws needed to keep peace here.