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To: dayglored

Umm, you’re joking, right??

That is a photo that was created in WWII to show what would happen if we lost to the Germans, kids would be using Nazi salutes to the flag instead of their hand over their heart


149 posted on 01/29/2009 5:39:11 AM PST by RaceBannon (We have sown the wind, but we will reap the whirlwind. NObama. Not my president.)
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To: RaceBannon

“No maam. I said ‘flag’. I swear I did”.


150 posted on 01/29/2009 5:40:16 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: RaceBannon
> Umm, you’re joking, right?? That is a photo that was created in WWII to show what would happen if we lost to the Germans, kids would be using Nazi salutes to the flag instead of their hand over their heart

Nope, you have your history wrong.

That was the original form of the salute during the Pledge, and it was the official form used by Americans until it was changed during WWII, because it was too much like the Nazi salute.

Ours came first, by over 40 years. The Nazis poisoned it, and we changed our form by government decree:

Reciting of the pledge is accompanied by a salute. An early version of the salute, adopted in 1892, was known as the Bellamy salute. It ended with the arm outstretched and the palm upwards. Because of the similarity between the Bellamy salute and the Nazi salute, President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted the hand-over-the-heart gesture as the salute to be rendered by civilians during the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem in the United States, instead of the Bellamy salute. This was done when Congress officially adopted the Flag Code on 22 June 1942.

See many of the posts in this thread for details. The quote above is from here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance_to_the_Flag_of_the_United_States

152 posted on 01/29/2009 7:16:00 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: RaceBannon

You do realize that Bellamy and his Pledge of Allegiance were Socialist, don’t you?


165 posted on 01/29/2009 7:02:05 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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