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Pledge of Allegiance

I decided it was time to see how well my seven year old daughter knew the Pledge of Allegiance. We had been to many events that said the pledge at the beginning, but I wasn't sure how well she knew it. So to begin, I said a phrase and she would repeat it back to me. By the end we were saying it together and she finished with, "...one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all... You may be seated."

I guess we need some work on this!!!!!!!!

--- Contributed by Tom Jollie

Does your youngster have a unique way of saying the Pledge or any country's national anthem, etc.? Email me, and I'll post the best here.

Red Skelton's
Commentary on the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance
As a schoolboy in Vincennes, Indiana, one of Red Skelton's teachers explained the words and meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance to his class. Skelton later wrote down, and eventually recorded, his recollection of this lecture.

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS,
ONE NATION, (SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE),
INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

The Pledge of Allegiance

by Francis Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag Bellamy (Editor), Scholastic i; Paperback

The Star-Spangled Banner

Paperback

I Pledge Allegiance: A Recommitment to America

by D. K. Webb; Hardcover

 

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Mark Twain on the Treason of Saluting the Flag
The words "under God" were not in the Pledge of Allegiance recited in American schools during the first half of the Twentieth Century. They were added to the Pledge by Congress at the height of the McCarthy era in 1954, the year of the infamous televised hearings about un-American activities. By Jum Zwick.