{"id":5007,"date":"2009-07-22T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/wordpress\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2017-07-25T05:56:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T12:56:36","slug":"the-pledge-of-allegiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/the-pledge-of-allegiance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pledge of Allegiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/PledgeOfAllegiance.png\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/>The pledge of Allegiance was written by a Socialist named Francis Bellamy. Bellamy was a flag salesman. In 1892 Francis Bellamy was also a chairman of a committee of state superintendents of education in the National Education Association. As its chairman, he prepared the program for the public schools&#8217; quadricentennial celebration for Columbus Day in 1892. He structured this public school program around a flag raising ceremony and a flag salute &#8211; his &#8216;Pledge of Allegiance.&#8217; His original Pledge read as follows:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bellamy\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia.com<\/a> | &#8220;I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to* the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all&#8221;<br \/>\n(* &#8216;to&#8217; added in October 1892). The recital was accompanied with a salute to the flag known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bellamy_salute\" target=\"_blank\">Bellamy salute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldtimeislands.org\/pledge\/pledge.htm\" target=\"_blank\">OldTimeIslands.com<\/a> | In 1923 and 1924 the National Flag Conference, under the &#8216;leadership of the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution, changed the Pledge&#8217;s words, &#8216;my Flag,&#8217; to &#8216;the Flag of the United States of America.&#8217; Bellamy disliked this change, but his protest was ignored.<\/p>\n<p>In 1954, Congress after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus, added the words, &#8216;under God,&#8217; to the Pledge. The Pledge was now both a patriotic oath and a public prayer. Bellamy&#8217;s granddaughter said he also would have resented this second change. He had been pressured into leaving his church in 1891 because of his socialist sermons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\/blog\/jghblog2009-07-24.asp\" target=\"_blank\">FFF.org<\/a> | He was the cousin of Edward Bellamy, the author of the 1888 novel Looking Backward, which was a paean to socialism.<\/p>\n<p>Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/rexcurry.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">RexCurry.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=left><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BssWWZ3XEe4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/BssWWZ3XEe4\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/BssWWZ3XEe4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=left><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/FrancisBellamy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Click to Enlarge<br clear=\"Left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/FrancisBellamySmall.jpg\" alt=\"Segregation\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><br clear=\"Left\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/FrancisBellamyBethlehemSteelPatrioticRally1918.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Click to Enlarge<br clear=\"Left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/FrancisBellamyBethlehemSteelPatrioticRally1918.jpg\" alt=\"Bethlehem Steel Patriotic Rally 1918\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"Left\"><br \/>\nAlso See:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fr33agents.com\/3028\/the-pledge-of-allegiance-and-the-religion-of-the-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">The pledge of allegiance and the religion of the State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peacefreedomprosperity.com\/5390\/why-the-pledge-of-allegiance-should-be-removed-from-the-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why The Pledge of Allegiance Should Be Removed From the Schools<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br clear=\"Left\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pledge of Allegiance was written by a Socialist named Francis Bellamy. Bellamy was a flag salesman. In 1892 Francis Bellamy was also a chairman of a committee of state superintendents of education in the National Education Association. As its chairman, he prepared the program for the public schools&#8217; quadricentennial celebration for Columbus Day in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,295],"tags":[138,950],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-video","tag-pledge","tag-pledge-of-allegiance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}