By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
saturday, september 23, 2023 at 10:12:53p.m. edt
The Pledge of Allegiance in Iowa
I graduated St. John the Evangelist Catholic school in Southern Maryland. https://sjeclinton.org/
My grade school classmates were the Mudd sisters. They were related to Dr. Samuel Mudd, the doctor who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth. https://drmudd.org/
 | This is the official site of the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House Museum. Dr. Mudd was the southern Maryland doctor who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth the morning after the assassination of Abraham Linco… drmudd.org |
The Mary Surratt house is a block away from the school. https://www.surrattmuseum.org/
| Founded in 1975, the Surratt Society encourages research into the role that the Surratt House Museum site played in the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and into life in mid-19th century Southern Maryland. www.surrattmuseum.org |
I remember Sister Paracleta very well. She taught my first grade class.
Every school day morning without fail she would make all 50 of us stand at attention, and have us place our right hand over our hearts. Then we would turn and face the American flag in the corner and say the Pledge of Allegiance out loud.
Every school day.
Without fail.
Not only my White and black classmates, but the Mudd sisters, too.
Because even the Mudd sisters, descendants of a Confederate sympathizer, were proud to be Americans.
1 comment:
I remember as well.We were still patriotic in the 60s and 70s--up to around the Bicentennial?Give or take a few years afterwards.By 9/11 we were headed down,with a small bump for a couple weeks post Muslim attack--then the commies kicked it into high gear,culminating with Obama, brief pause of the anti-Americanism for Trump and then Biden(Obama III).
--GRA
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