FRANK E. BELLAMY MEMORIAL PLAQUE
TO STIMULATE THE PATRIOTISM OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR PRESIDENT MCKINLEY SUGGESTED A NEW PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. A CONTEST WAS HELD AND WHEN IT WAS OVER THE HONOR OF WRITING THE "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE" FOR THE AMERICAN FLAG HAD FALLEN TO FRANK E. BELLAMY, AND HAD BEEN ADOPTED AS THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BY PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES OF AMERICA.
Location
Details
Memorial Type:
War Memorial Walls
Access:
Public
Wars Commemorated:
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
Year Dedicated:
1996
Photograph By:
WILLIAM FISCHER JR.
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