![]() Thus kindergartners of the 1960s became the first generation of American public-school children to whom it would be unknown not to recite, every morning, a pledge overseen by a creator, children whose every nickel saved or squandered on bubble gum and Creamsicles or, later, prostitutes and bags of pot, would be underwritten by an implicitly Christian Lord. ![]() ![]() currency minted or printed thereafter would feature, prominently, our theistic motto. In 1954, Congress passed a bipartisan amendment to the 1942 wartime flag code that added two words to our existing pledge of allegiance, our “nation indivisible” seeing “under God” inserted between them in 1955, Congress unanimously voted to replace our de facto motto, E pluribus unum-Out of many, one-with “In God We Trust” and in 1956, legislated that every piece of U.S. Across three years in the Cold War ’50s, God, as never before, became part of the grammar of American daily life. ![]()
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