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To: svcw
Thanks for posting that. I never knew that and had to go searching to see if it was true. I also never knew that in the first pledge they said "My flag" That was changed because they feared immigrants would think it meant the flag of their country. So it became the flag of the United States of America.

Like I said, thanks for posting as I then got a history lesson.

8 posted on 06/28/2011 4:16:28 PM PDT by Spunky ( “To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abh)
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To: Spunky

I found a picture on wiki. Oh, and you are welcome.
link to picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Students_pledging_allegiance_to_the_American_flag_with_the_Bellamy_salute.jpg


9 posted on 06/28/2011 4:22:01 PM PDT by svcw (Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
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