bowman popularly introduced the pledge of alligence with under god added to a society meeting in chicago on february 12, 1948.
bowman popularly introduced the pledge of alligence with under god added to a society meeting in chicago on february 12, 1948.
when did bowman popularly introduce the pledge of alligence with under god added to a society meeting in chicago?
february 12, 1948
louis albert bowman, an attorney from illinois, was the first to suggest the addition of "under god" to the pledge. the national society of the daughters of the american revolution gave him an award of merit as the originator of this idea. he spent his adult life in the chicago area and was chaplain of the illinois society of the sons of the american revolution. at a meeting on february 12, 1948, he led the society in reciting the pledge with the two words "under god" added. he said that the words came from lincoln's gettysburg address. although not all manuscript versions of the gettysburg address contain the words "under god", all the reporters' transcripts of the speech as delivered do, as perhaps lincoln may have deviated from his prepared text and inserted the phrase when he said "that the nation shall, under god, have a new birth of freedom." bowman repeated his revised version of the pledge at other meetings.
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cefnllys was a medieval town in radnorshire (now part of powys) in central wales. only st michael's church remains standing, with mounds indicating the remains of other buildings existing before the decline of the town in the 19th century. close by on the hill known as castle rock are the remains of what is known as cefnllys castle. almost encircling the hill, church and remains of the town is the river ithon which continues to llandrindod wells a little over a mile away.
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