All my life of pledging the allegiance, I never realied how Republic is used mostly. So many go on about we are losing our democracy and that is NOT SO. We are losing more liberties and justice as stated in the Pledge. It took me over 80 yrs to know this about the Pledge. To STOP and truly listen to what I've been saying. And I'm not alone. https://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm