The problem with making pledges is that they're so very easy to break. "My word is my bond" is not a big priority in our society, and people are invariably shocked when they encounter someone who proves that their word is their bond. "I'll have it to you by Monday" now means "I may do it next week, sometime, if you're lucky and I have time". I think it's mostly pointless to stand up, every morning, salute a small blanket, and mouth useless platitudes.

However.

Every morning at 8am, military facilities send up the flag. Every evening at 5pm, the flag is lowered. A fanfare announces the act, and all over the campus every military member turns in the appropriate direction to face the flag and salutes. Woe betide the person who attempts to disrupt this. You want to piss off military law enforcement? Try to enter a base during Flag Salute Time; if you make the mistake of going around the person standing in the middle of the road, saluting with their entire body, you will be chased down and read the riot act. When I see them saluting the flag, the aura of respect, honor, dignity, and loyalty is so thick you could cut it with a knife. Trying to get that attitude from your average citizen works about as well as me telling Rex not to bite; he's a lot better about not biting, but he still opens his mouth and runs into me.