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How about returning to the original Pledge of Allegiance as composed and published in that hotbed of radicalism, The Youth`s Companion, in 1892?
It omitted both ”of the United States of America” and ”under God.”
The former was added in 1923 and the latter in 1954.
If I say that, in my option, the shorter pledge has more grace and better rhythm, will I be regarded as unpatriotic and sacrilegious? Or just hopelessly old-fashioned?
