Neal McCoy is celebrating a massive milestone today. On Wednesday, January 7, McCoy celebrated ten years of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance every day, live on Facebook. McCoy commemorated the milestone on the White House lawn in Washington, D.C.

“Patriotism is not political,” McCoy says in a statement. “Today is a big milestone for me and for all the followers that tune in each day to recite the Pledge of Allegiance with me. I am honored to be in the nation’s capital and especially the White House. It is such a historical building and one of the most worldly known buildings, so to be welcomed inside the gates and to honor our flag and America here is really something.”

 

Neal McCoy Explains His Decision to Recite the Pledge of Allegiance

When McCoy said the Pledge of Allegiance live on Facebook on January 7, 2016, he had no idea that he would still be doing it ten years later.

“It’s a big deal for me,” McCoy tells Everything Nash, speaking of celebrating 10 years of saying the Pledge of Allegiance every day. “When I started saying the Pledge of Allegiance on Facebook, I just really wrote it one time on my Facebook page, and put that up.”

At the time, the decision to say the Pledge of Allegiance was about his desire for unity in the United States, regardless of one’s political affiliation.

“In January of 2016, they were still trying to figure out who was going to be the Republican nominee and the Democratic nominee,” McCoy recalls. “And so they were already going back and forth. And I have a side, but it doesn’t have anything to do with this election. It’s just going to be, we’re going to get in there whoever we get in there, and hopefully, the people that we nominate will be senators and Congressmen, maybe they can all work together and get something done.”

What Inspired Neal McCoy to Recite the Pledge of Allegiance Every Day

McCoy was born and raised in Texas. But his mother, who passed away after McCoy had been reciting the Pledge of Allegiance for about three years, is from the Philippines. Her love of the country that she ultimately called home helped shape McCoy’s determination to say the Pledge of Allegiance every day, wherever he happened to be.

“She instilled in us kids at a young age, she said, ‘Here’s what I want you do to: I want you to know your God and love your country,'” the singer says. “And I think she did a pretty good job. … That’s why I continue to do it today, in her honor.”

Neal McCoy Reveals If He Will Continue to Say the Pledge of Allegiance In the Future

Now that McCoy is celebrating a landmark anniversary, the 67-year-old has no plans of stopping, at least not anytime soon.

“I have in my mind, and my body and my physical shape, that I want to do it as long as I can,” McCoy says. “But I tell people all the time too, there could be something, whatever, if I get real sick or in an accident or something, to where I just couldn’t get to it, where I just couldn’t pick up the phone and do it. And then that will be the last day. But right now, while I’m still of pretty solid mind – my wife would argue with that – and physically I feel great, then I’m going to keep trying to do it. … I’m gonna keep doing it until something happens that I just can’t.”