I probably will repost this many times because it is so important to the meaning of America! Tags:RedSkeltonsPledgeOfAllegiance Added: 11th September 2007 Views: 4636 Rating: Posted By:Freckles
During the 1968 election campaign, presidential candidate Richard Nxon pledges to get America out of the Vietnam War if there's no end in sight. Tags:RichardNixonVietnamcampaignad Added: 14th September 2008 Views: 508 Rating: Posted By:Lava1964
The pledge of allegiance was originally written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a socialist magazine writer. When he wrote it for an children’s magazine, he also described a salute that he thought would be appropriate during its recital.
The pledge was aimed towards children, and the magazine also gave free flags away to schools, where the pledge was originally recited. The salute they were taught to give, with one stiff arm outstretched toward the flag, was deemed the “Bellamy salute” after its creator (who had gotten the idea from a salute that the Romans had done).
In the early 1940s, it was noticed that the salute bore a resemblance to a certain other salute being used in Germany at the time (which was based off of the same original Roman salute). As a result, it was formally replaced by Congress with the now-customary hand-on-heart during the pledge. Tags:TheOfficialPledgeofAllegianceSaluteHitlerRomansoildersalute Added: 12th February 2009 Views: 1202 Rating: Posted By:pfc
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