The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.

Pledge of Allegiance

Loyalty oath to the flag and republic of the U.S.

The U.S. Pledge of Allegiance is a patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States. The first version was written in 1885 by Captain George Thatcher Balch, a Union Army officer in the Civil War who later…