There's a meme going around, it does so right about this time every year. It's the text of the Pledge of Allegiance followed by an implied admonition of those not "patriotic" enough to repost it. Now, don't get me wrong, I like the Pledge, it's quite a poetic credo, but memes annoy me, so I have to note that this meme includes only the 1954 version of the Pledge.

I'm actually more fond of the Pledge the way Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister and Christian Socialist, wrote it in 1892:

"I...