Onodera Ritsu was a 15 years old boy, a heart-broken one to boot. Onodera Rika, a 25 years old woman with a 9 years old son named Natsume. The blank 10 years and the past of Rika might surprise anyone but still that is the truth.
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855â1931), who was a Baptist minister, a Christian socialist, and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy (1850â1898).
Volume VIII Â· Winter 1953 Â· Number 2. The Story of The Pledge of Allegiance to The Flag. --FRANCIS BELLAMY, '76. It is a frequent if tragic jest that so few of our hundred millions and over of patriotic Americans can repeat all the words of even the first verse of the Star Spangled Banner..