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).
In 1906, The Daughters of the American Revolution's magazine, The American Monthly, listed the formula of allegiance as being the Balch Pledge of Allegiance, which reads: I pledge allegiance to my flag, and the republic for which it stands. I pledge my head and my heart to God and my country.