Francis Julius Bellamy (May 18, 1855 – August 28, 1931) was an American Christian socialist Baptist minister and author. He is best known for writing the original version of the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892.
His original Pledge read as follows:
I pledge Allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.
The recital was accompanied with a salute to the flag known as the Bellamy salute.
Today, if anyone were to give the Bellamy salute, they would be villified, ostracized, labeled a white supremacist, and condemned by the ADL.
Why have we demonized our own history? The things that made us great and united us together have all been erased, changed, destroyed, and forgotten. Our history has been altered.
WHY? and for WHOM?
What good has it done us?
Why aren't you MAD about it?

Bellamy described his thoughts as he crafted the language of the pledge:
It began as an intensive communing with salient points of our national history, from the Declaration of Independence onwards; with the makings of the Constitution... with the meaning of the Civil War; with the aspiration of the people...
The true reason for allegiance to the Flag is the 'republic for which it stands'. ...And what does that last thing, the Republic mean? It is the concise political word for the Nation – the One Nation which the Civil War was fought to prove. To make that One Nation idea clear, we must specify that it is indivisible, as Webster and Lincoln used to repeat in their great speeches. And its future?
Just here arose the temptation of the historic slogan of the French Revolution which meant so much to Jefferson and his friends, 'Liberty, equality, fraternity'. No, that would be too fanciful, too many thousands of years off in realization. But we as a nation do stand square on the doctrine of liberty and justice for all...
These are the ideas that they want to destroy.

Pretty soon, America will be a distant memory.