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Winchester, VA town council ends Pledge of Allegiance at meetings, sparking debate on patriotism and tradition.

"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," Bellamy’s American credo read it in its initial 22-word incarnation.

In many schools across America, every day when students enter their school classroom in the morning, they are expected to recite a pledge of allegiance to the United States flag with their classmates.

One Maryland public school was coerced into no longer requiring students and staff to recite the Pledge of Allegiance after a free speech group pushed back against what it called "mandatory patriotism ...

(The Conversation) — On Flag Day, a historian of religions in America explains how the Pledge of Allegiance, which honors the American flag, is part of American civil religion. (The Conversation) — ...

The Continental Congress, the legislative body for the newly declared United States, adopted an official flag on June 14, 1777. The delegates resolved that “the flag of the United States be thirteen ...