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Mar 15, 2017 · Updated: October 5, 2023 | Original: March 15, 2017. copy page link. Print Page. Getty Images. The Pledge of Allegiance has been used in the United States for over 100 years, yet the 31-word...
May 17, 2024 · It was first published in the juvenile periodical The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892, in the following form: “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands; one nation indivisible, with liberty and Justice for all.”
September 2015. Chicago schoolkids pledge allegiance in 1963. Bettmann / Corbis. On the morning of October 21, 1892, children at schools across the country rose to their feet, faced a newly...
Nov 15, 2016 · For its first 60 years, the Pledge of Allegiance was a nonsectarian American vow, conceived to foster love of country in youths and among immigrants, and to heal the nation’s wounds in the wake of a vicious civil war.
Apr 23, 2024. — by. Charlotte Greene. in Important Documents. The Pledge of Allegiance. Advertisement. The Pledge of Allegiance was first published for Columbus Day, on September 8, 1892, in the Boston magazine The Youth’s Companion. It was written by a member of the magazine’s staff, Francis Bellamy.
Aug 24, 2023 · The sordid history of the Pledge of Allegiance. What began as a verse to honor Columbus Day evolved into a daily ritual for schoolchildren that has had many iterations—including one with...
Oct 23, 2017 · Explore. Stories. I Pledge Allegiance. By Debbie Schaefer-Jacobs October 23, 2017. Since October 1892, countless schoolchildren across the nation have begun their school day by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance as a daily patriotic ritual.
