His discovery was the basis of America's claim to the Oregon Territory. It officially becomes the national anthem in 1931. Authorship was claimed for James B. Upham and Francis Bellamy. In 1939 the United States Flag Association ruled that Bellamy was the author of the original pledge. In pledging allegiance to the flag, stand with the right hand over the heart or at attention.
Men remove their headdress.
Persons in uniform give the military salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Robert Peary places the flag his wife sewed atop the North Pole. He left pieces of another flag along the way. Its stirring words were written by Francis Scott Key.