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Originally Posted by MR2
Fort Collins students read Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic
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I'd be glad to help them with their German.
Ich verspreche allegience, der Flagge, der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, und der Republik, für die sie steht, eine Nation unter Gott, unteilbar, mit Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit für alle.
But I'm a bit rusty, I haven't used it much over the last few decades...except I did get to use it a couple of weeks ago to speak to a couple from near Rostock who we met at the Grgich Hills winery in Rutherford. Visitors are always surprised to encounter Americans who are multi-lingual; their perceptions seem to be that we don't care much about other languages or cultures. 
Richard 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
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