Looks like they’re all waving hello to me.
Hail Byrd? Sen. Robert C. would be proud.
That’s one way to have a very shot career.
Be careful to keep your elbow bent when you wave goodbye!
Thank goodness no one spray painted a ‘rising sun’ on something!
Gotta be more to the story.
The salute that looks like the Nazi salute is called the Bellamy salute and is a palm-out salute described by Francis Bellamy, the author of the American Pledge of Allegiance, as the gesture which was to accompany the pledge. During the period when it was used with the Pledge of Allegiance, it was sometimes known as the “flag salute”. Both the Pledge and its salute originated in 1892.
Later, during the 1920s and 1930s, Italian fascists and Nazi Germans adopted a salute which was very similar, and which was derived from the Roman salute, a gesture that was popularly (albeit erroneously) believed to have been used in ancient Rome. This resulted in controversy over the use of the Bellamy salute in the United States. It was officially replaced by the hand-over-heart salute when Congress amended the Flag Code on December 22, 1942.
Up to that time, it was the practiced salute to the American flag for all American children in public school....
Dumb move. They were making fun of their drill instructor who was probably all over them. So I don’t think there’s anything “pro nazi” in their intentions.
Kinda like, the wife is pushing you to do this, then do that, then do this. So you snap her a nazi salute to poke fun.
Humor that may have been acceptable years ago, but will now cost you your careers today. They probably should have known that.
The “nazis” do not OWN the “nazi salute”. Just because they used some particular thing, doesn’t mean nobody else can ever use it.
Does anyone remember how we saluted the flag prior to WWII? Looks a lot like what these goobers are doing.
Looked at the photo and all I can say is “Are you kiddin?!?!”
Play stupid games.......
WOW!
Horrible!
At least they weren’t giving the “OK” sign, right?
/S
It was a Roman salute before it was a Nazi salute.