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AMERICAN FLAG
As red as a fire,
As blue as the sky,
As white as the snow--
See our flag fly!
Three pretty colors
Wave at the sky,
Red, white and blue
On the Fourth of July!
Red, white and blue
Those colors are,
And every state has its very own star.
Hold up the flag
Hold it up high,
And then say, "Hurrah,
For the Fourth of July!"
~Author Unknown~
If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people.
~Simeon Strunsky
Who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag, and when?
George Washington never pledged allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America. Nor did John Adams, Thomas
Jefferson or Andrew Jackson put their hands over their hearts
and recite the litany so familiar to Americans. Lincoln
didn't do it either. Even President Chester A. Arthur -of
course you remember him-never took the Pledge. That's because the Pledge dates only from 1892. The words familiar to every American school child were written that year by Francis Bellamy, a staff member at Youth's Companion, a boy's magazine, as part of a Columbus Day celebration.
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