>>Hey, folks in other countries, does anybody else have anything like this?
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>Tamar;
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>I entered National Pledge into Google and got over 20 million hits. Seems there are other countries that have such a thing.

Back home, during the socialist version of the country, we had the solemn oath - for army conscripts. There were a few other ceremonies of the kind, basically each time one was becoming a member of this or that, but it was always a ceremony. Never had any daily thing like that. And didn't really wave the flag too much. The flag was confined to state and/or party buildings, for holidays, or when someone important died (half spear, then). And the fans were waving it when the state team would play, specially in the streets after the match if they won something. Occasionally, someone would have one on the first car at a wedding, or on the top of a new house, but that wasn't really a rule. Most people didn't do that.