THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG

Abraham Lincoln, in a tribute to the 52,000 Americans that had been killed, injured or lost in the 3-day battle of Gettysburg, delivered his famous Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, and declared that
"this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom."

The belief and expression "Nation under God" preceded and was incorporated into our Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag by President Eisenhower in 1954.

President George W. Bush signed the Pledge of Allegiance Reaffirmation Act on November 13, 2002, reaffirming the phrase "One Nation under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, and "In God We Trust" as the national motto of the United States of America.




I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.




A Pledge of allegiance first appeared in a magazine entitled "The Youth Companion" on September 8, 1892, edited by Francis Bellamy and James Upham. The magazine issue was part of a commemoration of Christopher Columbus' landing in 1492. The Pledge has been modified several times, until the final and present form received formal recognition under President Eisenhower on Flag Day, June 14, 1954.




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