(Greensburg Daily News) They’re 31 words nearly every American knows by heart.
Each morning as school begins, millions of students rise from their desks, turn toward the American flag displayed somewhere in their classroom, put their right hands over their hearts and say in unison, “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.”
What many of those same Americans might not know, however, is that the Pledge of Allegiance they’ve recited since their kindergarten days was once two words shorter.
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