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).
It was not until 1942 that Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance. One year later, in June 1943, the Supreme Court ruled that school children could not be forced to recite it.