I haven't time or resources this afternoon to locate a good authority on
this, but I am quite certian that I recall reading in some respectable
place that Congress added the words "under God" to the Pledge of
Allegiance in the 1950s when "godless Communism" was a popular phrase.
What Kevin Hardwick wrote about the original pledge before that time
remains a very good question: When and how did life-long residents of
the states that were once the Confederacy adopt "indivisible" with ease?
 
Brent Tarter
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