[Jackson Brown]

In addition, it was/is widely used by Native Americans/Mayans/Aztecs since LONG before white men arrived in the western hemisphere.

The word swastika is derived from the ancient Sanskrit word: Swastika, which means “being fortunate.”

[SAMWolf]

For the first fifteen years of its existence as a Division, members of the 45th Infantry division proudly wore on their left shoulders an ancient "good luck" symbol, the swastika, in yellow on a square red background. But when the swastika was adopted by Adolph Hitler and his Nazi party in Germany during the late 1930's, it became an odious symbol and was abandoned as the insignia of the 45th Infantry Division.