With the American Flag as a backdrop, Charles Boyd and Alice Ewing of Tyrone\u2019s Veterans of Foreign Wars presented five Tyrone ninth graders with awards for their participation in the Veteran\u2019s Loyalty Day Speech Contest.
\nMatt Elder won first prize of $100; Cynda Ormsby won second prize of $75; Jordon Campbell won third prize of $50; Ashley Turnbaugh won fourth prize of $25 and Christopher Clark won fifth prize of $10.
\nTo win their prize awards, students had to write a three to five minute speech on this patriotic topic: What the Pledge of Allegiance Means to Me.
\nThis past Saturday, May 3, first place winner Matt Elder along with his parents traveled to nearby Coalport to participate in the next level of speaking competition, march in a patriotic parade, and attend a banquet at The Coalport VFW at the close of the day.
\nNinth grade English teacher Richard Merryman coached the students for the patriotic speech contest.
\n\u201cThe Veterans certainly chose an appropriate subject for young people to speak about when they offered the topic- What the Pledge of Allegiance Means to Me,\u201d said Merryman.
\nAs ninth graders researched the flag pledge, they discovered that it was written by a Baptist minister named Francis Bellamy in August of 1892. On October 12, 1892, the Pledge of to the Flag came into prominence when twelve million public school children from every state in the Union recited the pledge as part of the 400th Anniversary of The Birth of Christopher Columbus.
\nOn June 14, 1923, the American Legion requested that the words flag \u2018of the United States of America\u2019 be added to the pledge. On Flag Day 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower approved adding the words \u2018under God\u2019 to emphasize the importance of religious faith in America\u2019s past as well as in her future.
\n\u201cCertainly we thank our local Veterans of Foreign Wars for supporting the young people of this community in their writing and speaking endeavors. We also express our gratitude to these Veterans for increasing our knowledge about The Flag Pledge. That way, the next time we recite the Flag Pledge at a public event, we will not take it so much for granted,\u201d said Merryman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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