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Each day across America, in classrooms big and small, at city schools and rural ones students recite the pledge of allegiance. Let's go back in time: It's 1892 and Chicago is preparing for the ...
During the course of the story, the children are persuaded to abandon their religion and national loyalty. Framing the story is the fact that, while the children ritually recite a "Pledge of Allegiance" every morning, none know what it actually means. Addressed broadly, lacking the meaning of any word can lead anyone – child or adult – to ...
The Pledge of Allegiance: A Revised History and Analysis, 1892–2007 (Free State Press, Inc.) ISBN 978-0-9650620-2-2 Excerpt, Chapter Eight: "Under God" and Other Questions About the Pledge. Ellis, Richard J. (2005). To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press) ISBN 0-7006-1372-2
A USCIS official administering the Oath of Allegiance to a group of U.S. servicemembers during a naturalization ceremony at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan U.S. military personnel taking and subscribing to the Oath of Allegiance at the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, California, in 2010 Lawful immigrants taking and subscribing to the Oath of Allegiance at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona ...
Tamara Weston is a freelance writer and producer. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two kids. One evening last week while I was somewhere in between bath time and asking my kids to ...
Officially called the "Pledge of Commitment": From this time forward, [under God], I pledge my loyalty to Australia and its people, whose democratic beliefs I share, whose rights and liberties I respect, and whose laws I will uphold and obey. All new citizens have the choice of making the pledge with or without the words "under God".
During the Civil War the United States federal government required all naval shipyard workers to sign a loyalty oath. Oath to defend the Constitution of the United States and, among other promises, to "abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the . . . rebellion having reference to slaves . . . ," signed by former Confederate officer Samuel M. Kennard on June 27, 1865 [5]
The National Pledge is an oath of allegiance to the Republic of India. It is commonly recited by Indians in unison at public events, especially in schools, and during the Independence Day and Republic Day celebrations.