![]() ![]() ![]() The most recent alteration of its wording came on Flag Day (June 14) in 1954, when the words "under God" were added. The official name of The Pledge of Allegiance was adopted in 1945. īellamy's version of the pledge is largely the same as the one formally adopted by Congress 50 years later, in 1942. 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. Bellamy, the circulation manager for The Youth's Companion magazine, helped persuade then-president Benjamin Harrison to institute Columbus Day as a national holiday and lobbied Congress for a national school celebration of the day. ![]() In 1892, Francis Bellamy revised Balch's verse as part of a magazine promotion surrounding the World's Columbian Exposition, which celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas. The first version, with a text different from the one used at present, was 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. The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is a patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States of America. Schoolchildren in 1899 reciting the Pledge of Allegiance ![]()
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