faced a newly installed American flag and, for the first time, recited 23 words written by a man that few people today can name. “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it ...

It was the spring of 1954, and Congress had voted, after some controversy, to insert the phrase into the Pledge of Allegiance ... a National Flag Conference, presided over by the American Legion ...

Patriotism isn't just waving a flag ... the pledge of allegiance in their heads in solidarity and in loyalty. Andrew Lam is the son of a South Vietnamese general whose family fled to America ...

And when the bell rang, they stood as one to 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 ...

The full pledge, which many American children memorized in school, is as follows: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands ...

“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.” In America’s ...

In 1892, Francis Bellamy, a minister from upstate New York, reportedly wrote the pledge as an expression of fealty to the U.S. It read: "I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which ...

The Supreme Court established in 1943 no one can be compelled to pledge allegiance to the U.S. flag, but that didn’t stop a Texas ... She felt the part of the oath declaring America “one nation under ...