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In class yesterday, we talked about the pledge of allegiance and the reason why we recite those well known words every school day. As I spoke to the children I explained to them why we stand, why we hold our hand over our heart and why we feel it’s necessary to pledge our allegiance to the country that has given us so much. I told them I wanted them to say the pledge, not because it was something ...

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In our world today there are so many voices. There are voices on social media, voices on tv and on the radio, voices in our workplaces, and voices in our homes, voices literally everywhere we go. In the midst of all these voices it can be so easy to forget who we are. It can be easy to buy into the lies of those voices that we allow to speak loudest into our lives. Voices that tell us we aren’t go...

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