PLEDGE OF ALLECIANCE TO THE FLAG. |
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| by Ted Peterson |
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| "I PLEDGE OF 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" |
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| The Pledge of Allegiance received official recognition by Congress in an Act approved on June 22, 1942. However, the pledge was first published in 1892 in the Youth's Companion Magazine in Boston, Massachusetts to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, and was first used in public to celebrate Columbus Day on October 12, 1892. |
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| The phrase "under God" was added to the pledge by a Congressional act approved on June 14, 1954. This is the part the U.S. Court in San Francisco has ruled that cannot be used in schools. |
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| In its original version, the pledge read "my flag" instead of "the flag of the United States." The change in the wording was adopted by the National Flag Conference in 1923. |
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| The rational for the change was that it prevented ambiguity among foreign-born children and adults who might have the flag of their nation in mind when reciting the pledge. |
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