different ways but i like writing about the pledge because i do a reading of a photograph, a dorothea lange photograph of these beautiful, happy little girls on a playground in san francisco with their hands, their hearts saying the pledge. and they were photographed two days before they were put in internment camps and the point that i try to make there is the pledge they're saying at the pleasure that they had in belonging was so undermined by the requirement belonging in a particular kind of way. right. and when when you are required to the pledge. and in michigan, a right wasn't too long ago that there was a state law passed requiring to require everybody to say the pledge. it required teachers to make time, say the pledge, and as soon as your requiring a oath, you're getting into a whole kind of complicated territory around belonging, at. one of the interesting things about the pledge that that i discovered doing my research is in fact the original. instead of putting your hand on your heart, the original practice around the pledge was actually it's so similar to the nazi salute becaus