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To: PAR35
“Is the Pledge of Allegiance still relevant to you?”
Only if said while giving the traditional "Bellamy Salute" which was used until FDR

When I did a search for the term, a lot of pix of Nazi salutes came up. Are you referring to the British style still in use? The Brits use this palm out style for their Army and Air Force...

...and the same palm down salute as Americans for their Navy:


138 posted on 11/14/2023 9:47:14 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde
Bellamy Salute:

No, those aren't National Socialist Germans ... National Socialism hadn't been invented in 1915 when that picture was taken.

Thise children aren't National Socialist Germans, either ... They're Americans, and their fathers were at war with National Socialist German when this picture was taken in 1942.

And then there's the LONG history of this symbol:

Long before National Socialist Germans got hold of it.

140 posted on 11/14/2023 9:56:59 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Albion Wilde
The Bellamy salute, first used when the Pledge was introduced in the 1890s. It consists of extending your arm at an upward angle toward the flag, wrist straight so your palm faces outward and downward. It is the proper way for civilians to salute the American flag, unless one is a Socialist New Dealer.

It's used in other countries. I remember passing a rural school in Mexico in the 1980s and seeing the children gathered around the flagpole saluting the Mexican flag one morning.

146 posted on 11/14/2023 4:37:06 PM PST by PAR35
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