William Tell
08-23-2014, 10:11 AM
Amazing stuff, more people need to read about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zweCm7smxY&list=PLiAtRm0EugTo3g5037RqYaI6 fBmQVwUfN&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3a1DEoB59k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy
The Bellamy salute is the salute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salute) described by Francis Bellamy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy), Christian socialist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_socialism) minister and author, to accompany the American Pledge of Allegiance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance), which he had authored. During the period when it was used with the Pledge of Allegiance, it was sometimes known as the "flag salute". During the 1920s and 1930s, Italian fascists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_fascism) and Nazis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party) adopted a salute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_salute) which had the same form, resulting 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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress) amended the Flag Code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code) on December 22, 1942.
The inventor of the saluting gesture was James B. Upham, junior partner and editor of The Youth's Companion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Youth%27s_Companion).[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute#cite_note-Miller-1) Bellamy recalled Upham, upon reading the pledge, came into the posture of the salute, snapped his heels together, and said "Now up there is the flag; I come to salute; as I say 'I pledge allegiance to my flag,' I stretch out my right hand and keep it raised while I say the stirring words that follow."
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In the 1920s, Italian fascists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_fascism) adopted the Roman salute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute) to symbolize their claim to have revitalized Italy on the model of ancient Rome. This was quickly copied by the German Nazis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party), creating the Nazi salute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_salute). The similarity to the Bellamy salute led to confusion, especially during World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II). From 1939 until the attack on Pearl Harbor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor), detractors of Americans who argued against intervention in World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) produced propaganda using the salute to lessen those Americans' reputations. Among the anti-interventionist Americans was aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh). Supporters of Lindbergh's views would claim that Lindbergh did not support Adolf Hitler, and that pictures of him appearing to do the Nazi salute were actually pictures of him using the Bellamy salute. In his Pulitzer prize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_prize) winning biography Lindbergh, author A. Scott Berg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Scott_Berg) explains that interventionist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interventionism_%28politics%29) propagandists would photograph Lindbergh and other isolationists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolationists) using this salute from an angle that left out the American flag (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_flag), so it would be indistinguishable from the Hitler salute to observers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute
The Official Pledge of Allegiance Salute Used to be a ‘Hitler Salute’ (http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/the-official-american-flag-salute-used-to-be-a-hitler-salute/)
… Yes, that title is correct. Read on, intrepid history-seekers.
The pledge of allegiance was originally written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy), a socialist magazine writer. When he wrote it for an children’s magazine, he also described a salute that he thought would be appropriate during its recital.
The pledge was aimed towards children, and the magazine also gave free flags away to schools, where the pledge was originally recited. The salute they were taught to give, with one stiff arm outstretched toward the flag, was deemed the “Bellamy salute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute)” after its creator (who had gotten the idea from a salute that the Romans had done).
http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/untitled-21.jpg
Above: The Bellamy Salute, before WWII In the early 1940s, it was noticed that the salute bore a resemblance to a certain other salute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_salute) being used in Germany at the time (which was based off of the same original Roman salute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute)). As a result, it was formally replaced by Congress with the now-customary hand-on-heart during the pledge. Below are three photographs showing the old salute, now in the Library of Congress, which were taken in May 1942 in Southington, Connecticut, just one month before the new salute became official. These photographs were taken by Charles Fenno Jacobs, a photojournalist who was at the time employed by the US government.
http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/2.jpg
http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/3.jpg
http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/11.jpg
http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/the-official-american-flag-salute-used-to-be-a-hitler-salute/
THE ORIGINAL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE SALUTE
http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/images/origin6.jpgWhen the Pledge of Allegiance was originally written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, who was - ironically - a socialist magazine writer, he included instructions on how to properly salute the flag while reciting his oath.
Dubbed "The Ballamy Salute" after its creator, school children were instructed to recite the pledge with the right arm out in a stiff salute outstretched to the flag. This practice actually was adopted and continued until the early 1940's when it was noticed that the American salute bore a striking resemblance to a salute that another country was using.
http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/images/origin7.gif
http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/images/origin8.gif
Naturally, the salute quickly fell out of style and was replaced by placing the right hand over your heart as we do today.
Using the outstretched salute is a tradition that goes all the way back to the Romans, but after the Nazis, it's unlikely we'll see a resurgence of the original Pledge of Allegiance salute anytime soon.
http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2009/originalpledgesalute.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zweCm7smxY&list=PLiAtRm0EugTo3g5037RqYaI6 fBmQVwUfN&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3a1DEoB59k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy
The Bellamy salute is the salute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salute) described by Francis Bellamy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy), Christian socialist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_socialism) minister and author, to accompany the American Pledge of Allegiance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance), which he had authored. During the period when it was used with the Pledge of Allegiance, it was sometimes known as the "flag salute". During the 1920s and 1930s, Italian fascists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_fascism) and Nazis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party) adopted a salute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_salute) which had the same form, resulting 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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress) amended the Flag Code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code) on December 22, 1942.
The inventor of the saluting gesture was James B. Upham, junior partner and editor of The Youth's Companion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Youth%27s_Companion).[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute#cite_note-Miller-1) Bellamy recalled Upham, upon reading the pledge, came into the posture of the salute, snapped his heels together, and said "Now up there is the flag; I come to salute; as I say 'I pledge allegiance to my flag,' I stretch out my right hand and keep it raised while I say the stirring words that follow."
........
In the 1920s, Italian fascists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_fascism) adopted the Roman salute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute) to symbolize their claim to have revitalized Italy on the model of ancient Rome. This was quickly copied by the German Nazis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party), creating the Nazi salute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_salute). The similarity to the Bellamy salute led to confusion, especially during World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II). From 1939 until the attack on Pearl Harbor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor), detractors of Americans who argued against intervention in World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) produced propaganda using the salute to lessen those Americans' reputations. Among the anti-interventionist Americans was aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh). Supporters of Lindbergh's views would claim that Lindbergh did not support Adolf Hitler, and that pictures of him appearing to do the Nazi salute were actually pictures of him using the Bellamy salute. In his Pulitzer prize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_prize) winning biography Lindbergh, author A. Scott Berg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Scott_Berg) explains that interventionist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interventionism_%28politics%29) propagandists would photograph Lindbergh and other isolationists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolationists) using this salute from an angle that left out the American flag (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_flag), so it would be indistinguishable from the Hitler salute to observers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute
The Official Pledge of Allegiance Salute Used to be a ‘Hitler Salute’ (http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/the-official-american-flag-salute-used-to-be-a-hitler-salute/)
… Yes, that title is correct. Read on, intrepid history-seekers.
The pledge of allegiance was originally written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy), a socialist magazine writer. When he wrote it for an children’s magazine, he also described a salute that he thought would be appropriate during its recital.
The pledge was aimed towards children, and the magazine also gave free flags away to schools, where the pledge was originally recited. The salute they were taught to give, with one stiff arm outstretched toward the flag, was deemed the “Bellamy salute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute)” after its creator (who had gotten the idea from a salute that the Romans had done).
http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/untitled-21.jpg
Above: The Bellamy Salute, before WWII In the early 1940s, it was noticed that the salute bore a resemblance to a certain other salute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_salute) being used in Germany at the time (which was based off of the same original Roman salute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute)). As a result, it was formally replaced by Congress with the now-customary hand-on-heart during the pledge. Below are three photographs showing the old salute, now in the Library of Congress, which were taken in May 1942 in Southington, Connecticut, just one month before the new salute became official. These photographs were taken by Charles Fenno Jacobs, a photojournalist who was at the time employed by the US government.
http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/2.jpg
http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/3.jpg
http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/11.jpg
http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/the-official-american-flag-salute-used-to-be-a-hitler-salute/
THE ORIGINAL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE SALUTE
http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/images/origin6.jpgWhen the Pledge of Allegiance was originally written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, who was - ironically - a socialist magazine writer, he included instructions on how to properly salute the flag while reciting his oath.
Dubbed "The Ballamy Salute" after its creator, school children were instructed to recite the pledge with the right arm out in a stiff salute outstretched to the flag. This practice actually was adopted and continued until the early 1940's when it was noticed that the American salute bore a striking resemblance to a salute that another country was using.
http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/images/origin7.gif
http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/images/origin8.gif
Naturally, the salute quickly fell out of style and was replaced by placing the right hand over your heart as we do today.
Using the outstretched salute is a tradition that goes all the way back to the Romans, but after the Nazis, it's unlikely we'll see a resurgence of the original Pledge of Allegiance salute anytime soon.
http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2009/originalpledgesalute.htm