The Pledge of Allegiance is a poem we respect. It is very important because it holds much history, schools recite it every day and the purpose of it. Here lately there are many debates on keeping the Pledge of Allegiance. There’s just too much about it to give it up.
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by Francis Bellamy. Francis Bellamy was a socialist minister who was born in 1855 and died in 1931. His poem was first published in The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892. The original version of the pledge was ‘’ 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 words ‘’ the Flag of the United States of America’’ were added, because as Bellamy had hope for any citizen in any country to use it that did not happen. Due to threats, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add words ‘’under God’’ in 1954. That created the pledge we now say today. Bellamy got the idea to write the pledge by expressing the ideas of his first cousin, Edward Bellamy, author of the American socialist utopian novels. …show more content…
We say this pledge as a respect to our country, but it has become a major problem to some people. Citizens are getting upset about the pledge having ‘’under God’’ in it. That should be the last thing anyone should be worried about. People should be thankful that we are citizens of a free country. Many people can remember in school putting their hand over their heart reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and looking at the Flag of the United States of America and they were honored to be "one Nation". They were not worried about the words "under God", and did not think that two words meant "be my religion", they are words that bring our once torn country together as
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by Francis Bellamy. Francis Bellamy was a socialist minister who was born in 1855 and died in 1931. His poem was first published in The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892. The original version of the pledge was ‘’ 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 words ‘’ the Flag of the United States of America’’ were added, because as Bellamy had hope for any citizen in any country to use it that did not happen. Due to threats, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add words ‘’under God’’ in 1954. That created the pledge we now say today. Bellamy got the idea to write the pledge by expressing the ideas of his first cousin, Edward Bellamy, author of the American socialist utopian novels. …show more content…
We say this pledge as a respect to our country, but it has become a major problem to some people. Citizens are getting upset about the pledge having ‘’under God’’ in it. That should be the last thing anyone should be worried about. People should be thankful that we are citizens of a free country. Many people can remember in school putting their hand over their heart reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and looking at the Flag of the United States of America and they were honored to be "one Nation". They were not worried about the words "under God", and did not think that two words meant "be my religion", they are words that bring our once torn country together as