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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Parallel
Message-ID: <1291@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 15:50:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: teddy.1291
Posted: Tue Sep 10 15:50:01 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 11:12:02 EDT
References: <3900221@inmet.UUCP> <852@abnji.UUCP> <227@pyuxii.UUCP>
Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
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In article <227@pyuxii.UUCP> tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) writes:
>Yes, Armstrong, but you do not have to join the Boy Scouts
>nor are you required to sing "God Bless America".
>There's the difference.
>T. C. Wheeler


In my elementary school, we WERE required to sing "patriotic" songs
every day.  We were also required to salute the flag.  I remember we used sing
one about the Green Berets, and how great is was to be one.  If this isn't
militaristic indoctrination, I don't know what is.

Although my parents found the idea of my joining the cub scouts somewhat
distasteful, they allowed me to do so, since it was considered almost "de
rigeure" for boys my age.  Had I not, I would have ended up a social outcast.

In the USSR, no one is forced to join the Young Pioneers.  But those who
don't do so suffer quite a bit of scorn from their peers, as well as 
unfavorable offical attitudes as a result.

Please don't tell me that there is no political indoctrination in our
schools, I lived throught 6 years of it.


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Sport Death,
Larry Kolodney
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