U.S. Pledge of Allegiance required Nazi salute from 1892 to 1942
See PHOTOS of US school children giving the Bellamy salute [later adopted by the German National Socialist German Workers' Party - Nazis] during Pledge of Allegiance prior to 1942: PHOTO 1 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bellamy_salute_1.jpg PHOTO 2 : http://lerevdr.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/american-school-children-bellamy-salute.jpg The Bellamy salute is the hand gesture described by Francis Bellamy to accompany the American 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". It was first demonstrated on October 12, 1892.[...] The initial military salute was soon replaced with a hand-on-heart gesture, followed by the extension of the arm as described by Bellamy. Because of the similarity of this part of the salute to the Hitler salute, the Bellamy salute was widely replaced around 1942 with the modern gesture of placing the hand over the heart without raising the arm [50 years later]... In 1943, the Daughters of the American Revolution, initially resistant to the change, endorsed the hand-on-heart gesture during the Pledge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute SEE photo of Nazi salute here: http://euler.acadiau.ca/~dagora/dev/newsstand/dat/papers/pols_2002/2002.10.13/hitsal.jpg
