The Pledge of Allegiance was written by socialist minister Francis Bellamy and first published in "The Youth's Companion" on September 8 1892 with the hope it would be used by citizens in any country with the promise of liberty and justice for anybody and everybody:
"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
In 1923 when Bellamy was sixty eight years old, the words "the Flag of the United States of America" were added:
"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 US Congress in 1954, responded to the Communist threat of the period with a couple fighting words:
"...one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The creation of pledge version 3.0 so students (who are forced by state law to attend school) have thirty-one words to utter now -- under penalty of ostracizing by Red State people who have made:
"For which it stands, Two nations, Divisible & divided, with Liberty & justice for Them."
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