Monday, October 07, 2024
American University
A project of the Rev. James B. Simpson Fellowship at American University’s School of Communication

Every morning at school – they had schools in those barracks – we started the day with The Pledge of Allegiance to the flag….and there was the American flag flying over the camp. But I could also see the barbed wire fence – and the sentry towers with the machine guns pointed at us – from my schoolhouse window, as I recited the words, “with liberty and justice for all.

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Every morning at school - they had schools in those barracks - we started the day with The Pledge of Allegiance to the flag….and there was the American flag flying over the camp. But I could also see the barbed wire fence - and the sentry towers with the machine guns pointed at us - from my schoolhouse window, as I recited the words, “with liberty and justice for all.
— George Takei