Software engineer. BS Computer Science, my second of three bachelor degrees, prefaced by German and followed by Applied Math. I made it slightly past the full three semesters of calculus, but the concepts have been able to stick with me and I do like to fiddle with mathematical problems.
I didn't learn that nasty bit of history until well into my adulthood, but then we didn't have access to the Internet until I was past 50 (though I had researched that before then, in the mid-80's). I had missed personally experiencing that transition by a couple years. Though at one opening-day for Little League, a slightly old man, apparently the beneficiary? of Catholic school, shared how the nuns used to "correct" them (yard-stick instruction, I gathered) for adding the new words, "under God", to the Pledge, which makes me strangely appreciative of Catholic sensibility, in this one regard, at least.
She is also an officer in the Secular Student Alliance and the Gay Straight Alliance, and member of the film club
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those in Texas? From what one escapee from Texas told me, Austin was the only spot of civilisation to be found in the entire state.
As a veteran myself, about to have to retire due to age, I swore solemn oaths to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. And that is where my loyalty still lies.