ALEXANDRIA, Pa. -- He was a Scotsman come to America, just 3 1/2 years removed from his homeland. So, unlike his schoolboy son, George Docherty didn't have The Pledge of Allegiance stamped deep in memory.
The Rev. George Macpherson Docherty, 91, proposed inserting the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to President Eisenhower in February 1954. (Lake Fong, Post-Gazette)
As Docherty recalls it almost 49 years hence, the exchange between father and son, went something like this:
"What did you do in school today?"
"Well," second-grader Garth Docherty obliged, "we started with The Pledge of Allegiance."
So, the junior Docherty repeated it for his father -- the 1953 version, the next-to-the-current revision that read, in part, "one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
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