Deb and I were at a friend's last night and he told us about watching "The Bells of St. Mary" with Bing Crosby and at one point the kids recited the Pledge of Allegiance. He noticed that the pledge was slightly different than the one we all learned as kids - it was missing something. We talked about it for a while and I said, "Let's look it up on YouTube, I'm sure someone's posted it." We found it right away and the link's below. Since the video tells the whole thing; what's missing is the phrase "under God". And doesn't the pledge flow better without those two annoying words!
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We were attending this Methodist church and after 9/11 they started having us get up and do the Pledge of Allegiance, which always struck me as quite weird. I became an American citizen when I was 14, having been a German citizen, and I had to take some oath, and I remember there was one part where I had to promise to defend the nation in the armed forces or something to that effect. I was like, "Whoa, wait a minute here," but what could I say? I went ahead and oathed it. But now I'm too old, but hell, I could have 4-F'ed myself on a mental anyway, so it was a moot point.
I can't remember all of the details... but the "Under God..." was added in the 1950's.
Everybody was afraid of looking like a comunist.
I'll find out more.
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