Gave proof thro' the night that our Flag was still there. O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?Īnd the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, The most recent alteration of its wording came on Flag Day in 1954, when the words "under God" were added. The official name of The Pledge of Allegiance was adopted in 1945. The form of the pledge used today was largely devised by Francis Bellamy in 1892, and formally adopted by Congress as the pledge 50 years later, in 1942. Such a pledge was first composed, with a text different from the one used at present, by Captain George Thatcher Balch, a Union Army Officer during the Civil War and later a teacher of patriotism in New York City schools. The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an expression of allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States of America.
The Pledge of Allegiance is honored annually on December 28th. Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,Īnd to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
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