For more than a century, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance has
been a central part of the American Experience. And perhaps because
of its ubiquity, this simple flag salute has served not only as a
unifying ritual but also as a lightning rod for bitter
controversy.
Congress's 1954 decision to add "under God" to the Pledge has
made it the focus of three U.S. Supreme Court cases and at least
one other landmark appellate decision. The debate continues today,
but along with it exists a widely held admiration and support for
this simple affirmation of our shared patriotism.
As Jeffrey Owen Jones and Peter Meyer show in their illuminating
history, this brief salute to the flag has had an almost magical
power to galvanize people's deepest feelings and beliefs about who
we are and ought to be as a nation. In that sense, the story of the
Pledge of Allegiance is the story of America and the American
people.
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