The pledge is an, and always will be, important part of everyday school life. You walk in, get to class, then everyone stands and says the pledge. But why? The pledge was instilled into schools for students to instill patriotism into the youth. The part which says “under God”, was not added in the pledge until the cold war. During this time in America’s life, atheism was thought of as a communist thing. To show that everyone was American and proud of it, they added those two words. To this day that has been one of the biggest controversies in this subject of the pledge. It won’t be changed, and people will just live with it because that’s what they've known their whole life. (Why do
