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  2. Why Do Students Pledge Allegiance to the U.S. Flag? - AOL

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    Each day across America, in classrooms big and small, at city schools and rural ones students recite the pledge of allegiance. Let's go back in time: It's 1892 and Chicago is preparing for the ...

  3. Pledge of Allegiance - Wikipedia

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    The Pledge of Allegiance is a patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States of America. The first version 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 ...

  4. Bellamy salute - Wikipedia

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    The inventor of the Bellamy salute was James B. Upham, junior partner and editor of The Youth's Companion. [1] Bellamy recalled that Upham, upon reading the pledge, came into the posture of the salute, snapped his heels together, and said, "Now up there is the flag; I come to salute; as I say 'I pledge allegiance to my flag', I stretch out my right hand and keep it raised while I say the ...

  5. Pledge Across America - Wikipedia

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    Pledge Across America is the nationally synchronized recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. In 2001 shortly after September 11 the President of the United States and the United States Secretary of Education and both the United States Senate and House of Representatives joined over 52 million students in the synchronized Pledge of ...

  6. Groundskeeper caught saying the Pledge of Allegiance - AOL

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    Hartman told KPRC he hopes the photo - caught at just the right time- will have an impact on the 'level of respect students show' during the Pledge of Allegiance and moments of silence. Show ...

  7. Category:Oaths of allegiance - Wikipedia

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    Oath of Allegiance (Philippines) Patriotic Oath (Philippines) Pledge of Allegiance; Pledge of Allegiance (South Korea) Pledge of Allegiance to the Mexican Flag; Pledge of Allegiance to the Philippine Flag; Pledge of Loyalty Act 2006; Popery Act; Promissione ducale; Protestation of 1641

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  9. Category:Pledge of Allegiance - Wikipedia

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    The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an oath of loyalty to the national flag and the republic of the United States of America, originally composed by Francis Bellamy in 1892. Pages in category "Pledge of Allegiance"