Red Skelton, during the presentation of his CBS television show on the night of January 14, 1969, read his version of the "Pledge of Allegiance" to the flag. He immediately received 200,000 requests for it, he recorded it and the record was widely played throughout the country. Skelton had learned his adaptation of the pledge as a schoolboy in Vincennes, Indiana. The teacher felt his pupils were bored reciting the pledge every morning (times haven't changed much), so he decided to explain to his students what the lines they were mumbling meant.

"I" — me, an individual, a committee of one.

"Pledge" — dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self-pity.

"Allegiance" — my love and devotion.

"To the Flag" — our standard, Old Glory, a symbol of freedom. Wherever she waves, there is respect because your loyalty has given her dignity that shouts freedom is everybody's job.

" Of the United" — that means that we have all come together

" States" — individual communities that have united into 50 great states. Fifty communities with pride and dignity and purpose, all divided by imaginary boundaries, yet common purpose and that's love for country.

" Of America"

" And to the Republic" — a state in which sovereign power in invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people and it's representatives chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people and it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people.

"For which it stands"

" One nation under GOD" — meaning so blessed by GOD.

"Indivisible" — incapable of being divided.

"With Liberty" — which is freedom and the right or power to live one's own life without threats or fear of some sort of retaliation.

"And justice" — the principle or quality of dealing fairly with others.

"For all" — which means it's as much your country as it is mine.