they started saying the pledge of allegiance with under god in schools on december 22, 1942.
they started saying the pledge of allegiance with under god in schools on december 22, 1942.
when did they start saying the pledge of allegiance with under god in schools?
december 22, 1942
the pledge of allegiance of the united states is an expression of allegiance to the flag of the united states and the republic of the united states of america. it was originally composed by captain george thatcher balch, a union army officer during the civil war and later a teacher of patriotism in new york city schools. the form of the pledge used today was largely devised by francis bellamy in 1892, and formally adopted by congress as the pledge in 1942. the official name of "the pledge of allegiance" was adopted in 1945. the most recent alteration of its wording came on flag day in 1954, when the words "under god" were added.
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when can we talk about a "house" or a "mansion" or a "shed"? the same can be said about verbs, in all the world languages: when should we stop saying "walk" and start saying "run"? the same happens, of course, with adjectives: when must we stop saying "yellow" and start saying "orange", or stop defining as "black" and start saying "white", or "rich" and "poor", "entrepreneur" and "worker", "civilized" and "primitive", "man" and "animal", "beast" and "sovereign", "christian" and "pagan", or "beautiful" and start saying "ugly", or "bad" and start saying "good", or "truth" and start saying "false", "determined" and "free"? or "in" and "out", "here" and "there", "now" and "then", "past" and "present" and "future" and "eternal"? not only are the topological differences between the words relevant here, but the differentials between what is signified is also covered by différance. deferral also comes into play, as the words that occur following "house" or "white" in any expression will revise the meaning of that word, sometimes dramatically so. this is true not only with syntagmatic succession in relation with paradigmatic simultaneity, but also, in a broader sense, between diachronic succession in history related with synchronic simultaneity inside a "system of distinct signs".
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