Saturday, July 4, 2015

I Pledge Allegiance

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
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Vintage Postcard With Pledge of Allegiance
World War II Era ~ 1944

This is the version the school children recite in one of my all - time favorite movies The House Without A Christmas Tree, a quaint and touching all - American story, set in 1946).

Not quite as quaint, but you can also read about the original version -- as recited by school children -- in Devil in the White City a book about Chicago's Columbus Exposition in 1893, the event for which the Pledge was written (pp 179 - 181; but, alas, no Movie Tie - In.)