RE: Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him
October 26, 2017 at 12:00 pm
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2017 at 12:01 pm by henryp.)
(October 25, 2017 at 5:21 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I'm a veteran. I can't be bothered to stand for the pledge, or any other coerced display of patriotism. Am I disrespectful to veterans?
I'd guess plenty of veterans would find your not standing/saluting/whatever to be disrespectful. Your intentions may not be to disrespect them, but that wouldn't change how some would feel, I'm sure.
I think it boils down to more of a social grace? Grace isn't quite right. I'm not sure what the word is. Things like take your hat for the anthem. Shake hands when you meet someone. Not wearing crocs to a wedding. Arbitrary actions that are for whatever reason displays of respect.
Even though their is no logical connection between revealing the top of my head for a song, and respecting the military, it's still a thing we've settled on to mean something.