> The "one nation under God" part was added later, not
 > part of the origional.
 > Make of it what you will...
To be picky (grin)...."One Nation" was always in it. "Under God" was added 
by, I believe, the Eisenhower administration.
For the record, most public schools have never forced the saying of the 
Pledge of Allegiance. Most teachers that I know asked everyone to stand, even 
those that don't say the Pledge for religious reasons. (If those stand like 
everyone else, it is less noticeable that they do not say the Pledge.) In my 
9 years of full time teaching, I only had one child refuse to stand or say 
the pledge. (Then again, 5 years of my teaching experience were in Christian 
schools and in a school on a military base.) I had it happen several times in 
my subbing experience, but those I let go.
                                 -donna
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