faced a newly installed American flag and, for the first time, recited 23 words written by a man that few people today can name. “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it ...

It was the spring of 1954, and Congress had voted, after some controversy, to insert the phrase into the Pledge of Allegiance ... a National Flag Conference, presided over by the American Legion ...

After all, it’s not like the pledge of allegiance is ... if the colors of the flag were meant to represent different races then who were the orange and red stripes meant to represent.

Delegates wear suits adorned with stars and stripes, dresses with American flag patterns, and blouses featuring bald eagles or the Pledge of Allegiance. As attendees waved red, white and blue ...

Tom Lewis’ father was a Marine Corps sergeant major and his mother a Native American ... they stood as one to pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic ...

The Supreme Court established in 1943 no one can be compelled to pledge allegiance to the U.S. flag, but that didn’t stop a Texas ... and Geoffrey Blackwell of American Atheists, a New Jersey ...