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The pledge in schools is relatively new, I think it was passed under reagan or something. Your grandparents weren't doing it.
That's not relatively new; it's about 20% of our entire existence, with multipliers for technology gains.
This country is young, and we have been heavily propagandized for decades.
They made me do it back in the 1960s. I remember learning they added "under God" during the McCarthy red scare days