Was the Pledge of Allegiance plagiarized from a child? (Hemant Mehta; OnlySky.Media)

The alleged author of the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy, may have taken credit for something a child wrote years earlier...

Francis Bellamy was a xenophobic bigot who wrote the Pledge to make sure immigrants pledged their loyalty to the U.S. flag instead of the one representing where they came from. While he had no problem with European immigrants, he lamented the newer wave of immigrants coming into the country at the time...

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