The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 40

THE MIAMI HERALD Sunday Oct 9 1977 One Nation Under Guard Invisible TFiti Liver Tea sn 4-B bro Anne Wilder The Herald's bureau chief in St Lucie Countv occasionally offers her personal observations of the uorld around us it was in the corner of the first-grade room and what other flag was there to pledge allegiance (whatever that was to anyway? But later the phrase the United States of was inserted to prevent us I presume from mistakenly pledging allegiance to the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union For a number of years after I left school I never had the opportunity to recite the Pledge of Allegiance Finally when I again found myself joining in the pledge I discovered the revisions The first was identifying the flag as belonging to the United States of America THE SECOND was that you no longer stretched out your hand on the word flag as we used to do when we started: pledge allegiance to the flag (point) and to the republic and so forth I also discovered that the pledge no longer went nation indivisible with liberty and justice for but was revised to nation under God By ANNE WILDER Luck Bureau Chief I see some teachers in Honolulu are shocked and astonished that some ninth graders were unable to write the Pledge of Allegiance correctly There was a story in The Herald the other day about the substitution of for and the for As a reporter who must have a dictionary within reach I sympathize with the misspellings But I wonder whether the results really show the children lack ability or whether they never were told the significance of what they recited each day When did you learn the Pledge of Allegiance? 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