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Mar 15, 2017 · The idea of a verbal vow to the American flag first gained traction in 1885, when a Civil War veteran named Colonel George Balch devised a version that read, “We give our heads and our hearts to...
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...
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.”
Nov 15, 2016 · First time in print: The pledge as published in the September 8, 1892, Youth’s Companion. 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.
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.
Jeffrey Owen Jones. November 2003. Brandy L. Hornback / U.S. Navy. I first struggled with "under God" in my fourth-grade class in Westport, Connecticut. It was the spring of 1954, and Congress had...
Aug 24, 2023 · The magazine published his verse and, on October 21, 1892—the nation’s first official Columbus Day —schoolchildren across the country recited it for the first time. Under other circumstances,...
