The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy however,The Pledge only received official recognition by Congress as an Act approved on June 22, 1942 ,and it wasn't adopted as the national pledge by Congress until December 28, 1945 . The pledge has went through several changes since the pledge was written in 1892. The Original was "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" this pledge was published in a children's magazine {The Youths Companion}on September 8th 1892 in observation of the 400th anniversary of Columbus discovering America . The pledge was first recited by public school children on October 12,1892 . In 1942 Official sanction was given to theses great words that had been recited each day by children for close to fifty years.In 1943 one year after receiving this Official sanction, the United States Supreme Court ruled that school children could not be forced to recite the Pledge as part of their daily routines.The words My Flag were changed to The Flag Of The United States in 1923 and in 1924 of America was added .The words "under God" were added to the Pledge in 1954 . Louis A. Bowman Chaplain of the Illinois Society of the Sons of the American Revolution was fist to initiate the addition. The current version is as follows" I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all".
* Written & Posted by Faith Hope and Politics December 2009
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