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Rocky Mountain High School senior Nuha Kapatayes had butterflies in her stomach Monday as she recited the first words of the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic — a language she learned as a child and now speaks fluently — over the school's public address system during morning announcements.
Then calm replaced nerves and, almost as quickly as it had started, it was done.
Kapatayes is one among a couple dozen members of the student-initiated Cultural Arms Club, which seeks to "destroy the barriers, embrace the cultures" that exist at not just Rocky Mountain High School, but also within the community. Members in November recited the Pledge in Spanish, sparking intense debate about whether saying the words of the Pledge in any language other than English was unpatriotic.