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TUCSON, Ariz. - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords led a crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance, her words ringing out across a cold Tucson night in a rare public appearance Sunday evening at a candlelight vigil one year after surviving a deadly shooting. The Democratic congresswoman - who has struggled to re-learn to walk after being shot in the head - stepped onstage to cheers from the crowd. Ron Barber, a staffer who was wounded in the rampage that killed six one year ago, invited her to lead the audience in the pledge.
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What is the proper way to pledge allegiance to this country in which we live? Is it to wave the flag? To waste money to fly the flag atop a parking garage we don't need? To regurgitate a meaningless pledge, hands over heart, while we face the flag on the top of the parking garage? Is it to waste the time to do likewise at a city council meeting or any other function of government? Allegiance to our country goes much deeper than a flag or an utterance of a few words we've uttered hundreds of times that have long since lost their meaning through overuse.
North Koreans inside the secretive, totalitarian state are expressing doubts about their new leader and anxiety over the future, while revealing details about their dire circumstances in rural areas that appear to be slipping from the grasp of the repressive regime. Meanwhile, North Korea's top military leaders pledged their allegiance Wednesday to Kim Jong-un, the 27-year-old, hand-picked successor of his father, Kim Jong-il, who died Saturday, according to the Reuters news agency.
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