The Pledge.....
Do we still do that
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As we cruise into the 2023 holiday season in the recent years life and our lifestyle has been full of nonlinear thought streams. As we prep for Thanksgiving this week I started to reflect on the value of Thanksgiving as something that links us as a populace in the former United States of America. The theme of families and friends gathering to give thanks! Having a chance to turn off that on switch! I wanted to choose an historic topic to discuss. I found the subject that has been forgotten in our new nation ‘The Discombobulated Communist states of Marxist America’. That subject is ‘The Pledge of Allegiance’.
I didn’t realize that The Pledge’ was only one sentence! I never really gave it thought. However, it is just one sentence that carries so much weight. The Pledge was also written over time. It was not knocked out in one sitting! It is kind of a living organism that evolves with the time. It was one hundred plus years for the former United States to have a Pledge. In fact about one hundred years from ‘The Constipation’ aka The Constitution.
What is the purpose of the Pledge? Well according to Wikipedia The Pledge is a patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic not democracy of the United States. Please from now on when you hear politicians and pundits say democracy that is an incorrect assessment of the United States. A republic is a government for the people by the people. Do you think and or feel we have that type of government now? Please pause and reflect.
The first version was apparently written in 1885 by Captain George Thatcher Balch, a Union Army officer in the Civil War who later authored a book on how to teach patriotism to children in public schools. In 1892, Francis Bellamy revised Balch’s version. Francis Bellamy was an American Christian socialist Baptist minister and Author. Christian socialist believe capitalism to be idolatrous and rooted in the sin of greed. He revised Balch’s verse as part of a magazine promotion surrounding the World’s Columbian Exposition aka The World’s Fair. That event celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus arrival in the Americas. Bellamy was the circulation manager for Youth’s Companion magazine, pitched President Benjamin Harrison to institute Columbus day as a national holiday and lobbied Congress for a national school celebration of the day. The magazine sent leaflets containing part of Bellamy’s Pledge of Allegiance to schools across the country and on October 21, 1892, over 10,000 children recited the verse together.
Now that we have the backdrop…. A marketing campaign! That is America though. All about business. Now we can deliberate on the progression of the The Pledge from 1885 till present time. There was 4 versions of this one sentence document that holds a lot of residue in the history of America. Let’s start in 1892:
I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
In 1923, the National Flag Conference called for the words ‘my flag’ to be changed to ‘the Flag of the United States.’’ The words ‘of America were added in 1924.
On June 22nd ,1942 Congress officially recognized the pledge for the first time: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
The final current version: Was executed when Congress passed legislation and President Eisenhower signed the bill into law on Flag day, June 14, 1954 when the phrase ‘under God’ was incorporated into the pledge of Allegiance on June 14, 1954, by a joint resolution of Congress amending the Flag code enacted in 1942. Here it is: 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.
That is the story of the Pledge. Don’t eat to much! Have a glorious Thanksgiving! Enjoy and give thanks. Cheers
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