USA's flag salute is wrong. U.S. soldiers used stiff-arm salute before Nazis did.
RESEARCH
The hand-over-the-heart in the Pledge of Allegiance is supposed to be the
military salute (to the chest) according to photographic evidence in new
research. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-images.html
Even today the military salute at the chest complies with "the right hand
over the heart" dictated under the law that Congress passed. The
chest-military salute may have been the original intent of people who
supported "the right hand over the heart" legislation. A photograph of the
military salute at the chest is at
http://rexcurry.net/military-salute-socialism-pledge-allegiance.jpg
The original Pledge of Allegiance began with the classic military salute (to
the forehead) that was then extended out toward the flag. It was the origin
of the stiff-arm salute adopted later by the National Socialist German
Workers Party, as shown by the historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of
Allegiance Secrets").
http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg
The Pledge's initial military salute was sometimes modified because some
educrats thought it was disrespectful for children to mimic the military. A
modified version of the gesture used the military salute from the chest and
then extended outward in the stiff-arm salute. An 1899 photograph of the
gesture is at
http://rexcurry.net/military-socialism-pledgeofallegiance1899.jpg
It is frightening to note that Adolf Hitler and German National Socialists
also adopted the gesture of the military salute from the chest extended
outward to the stiff-arm salute.
Congress was so vague that some people (especially those people who were
already performing the military salute from the chest) interpreted "the
right hand over the heart" as meaning the military salute from the chest and
they continued to perform it in that manner, but no longer with the
stiff-arm extension that had followed in the past.
Research indicates that the current hand-cupping-the-breast is NOT the
correct gesture, as originally intended, and that the chest-military-salute
IS what was intended by people who supported the current
"hand-over-the-heart" phrase.
The military salute at the chest is consistent with Bellamy's original
intent to use the military salute as his initial gesture. Francis Bellamy
and his cousin Edward Bellamy called their dogma "Military Socialism." They
wanted all of society to ape the military. That was the purpose of putting
flags over every school and ordering mechanical chanting in military
formation daily. A video documentary explains more at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4
The "swastika building" at the Navy's Coronado Seabees Barracks in
California is an odd reminder of the Bellamy dogma.
http://rexcurry.net/military-socialism-militarism-socialist-complex.html
The same people who say that Bellamy would have opposed changes to the words
of his Pledge, would agree that Bellamy would have opposed changes to the
gesture of his Pledge.
The military salute at the chest is consistent with the military mentality
of Congress when the current gesture was enacted in 1942. The U.S. had
entered the war (passed years after WWII had already begun, and a year after
the U.S. had entered WWII. On June 22, 1942 Congress passed a joint
resolution which was amended on December 22, 1942 to become Public Law 829;
Chapter 806, 77th Congress, 2nd session. The Pearl Harbor attack had
occurred on December 7, 1941, the U.S. declared war the following day).
http://rexcurry.net/pledge_military.html
Some people thought it was creepy for children to perform the initial
military salute to the forehead as written by Francis Bellamy in his
original Pledge, so the forehead salute of the ritual was sometimes dropped
entirely, leaving nothing but the American stiff-armed salute. That
modified form of the American salute was later adopted by the National
Socialist German Workers' Party.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
The military salute is a sign of submission to a superior officer /
commanding officer (in this case the flag / government) whose orders must be
obeyed without question. The Pledge fits the USA's police state, which
continues to expand and grow in power. http://rexcurry.net/1n1.gif
U.S. soldiers used the stiff-arm salute before it was used by the National
Socialist German Workers Party (the NSGWP or Nazis). The American practice
was the origin of the behavior adopted later by German National Socialists.
http://rexcurry.net/military-socialism-militarism-socialist-complex.html
Early flag ettiquette for men in uniform included the straight-arm salute
when the flag was passing or when the Pledge of Allegiance was being
mechanically chanted.
http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html
The Sunday Times-Signal in Zanesville, Ohio of August 9, 1942 states, "When
the flag is passing in parade or in review, all persons present should face
the flag, stand at attention and salute. Those present in uniform should
render the right-hand salute." The same article distinguishes the behavior
for the actual Pledge of Allegiance by stating that during the pledge,
"Persons in uniform shall render the military salute." The newspaper
provides a photograph of the right-hand salute showing a stiff arm salute
with the palm up. The arm and the palm are so stiff and straight that, at a
distance, the viewer would not see the direction of the palm.
Old photographs collected by Dr. Curry show that the salute was also
performed palm-down in the classic stylized salute adopted later by German
socialists.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
Several newspapers carried an article similar to the one in the Bismarck
Tribune on May 28, 1926. It states that during the pledge of allegiance
"persons in uniform render the right-hand salute."
In that sense, the "Nazi salute" is actually the "American salute" based on
its origin.
As a consequence, the USA set a bad example for a long time.
http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html
The world observed the U.S. military personnel delivering the straight-arm
salute to the flag before WWI, during WWI, after WWI, into WWII and for up
to three decades before the existence of the National Socialist German
Workers' Party.
It continued into WWII and to 1942 (and beyond) when Congress began to
promote the hand-over-the-heart gesture.
The Pledge salute even influenced the military salute at that time. The
Daily Northwestern Newspaper (Thursday Evening) March 8, 1917, explains that
the military salute had an outward extension. "Standing- at attention, raise
the right hand to the forehead Over the right eye, palm downward, fingers
extended and close together, arm at an angle of forty-five degrees. Move
hand outward about a foot, with a quick motion, then drop to the side."
http://rexcurry.net/nazi%20salute%208.jpg
Many people marveled at Adolf Hilter's "hypnotic" powers of propaganda, as
if he was the first of his kind as head of the National Socialist German
Workers Party. Adolf Hitler's propaganda had already been pioneered by
Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and American socialists. Francis Bellamy's
original Columbus Day program was a blueprint of nationwide propaganda for
socialism in government schools. They put government flags over schools, in
classrooms and everywhere.
They even put flags (and chanting to flags) in churches in another eerie
parallel followed later by socialists in Germany.
Those historical facts explain the enormous size and scope of government
today, the USA's growing police state, and its aggressive military
socialism. They are reasons for massive reductions in government, taxation,
spending, debt, and socialism.
Fan mail is also growing for work exposing the Pledge's poisonous pedigree
http://rexcurry.net/pledge_heart.html
The USA is still the worst example in the world of bizarre laws that require
robotic chanting to a national flag in government schools every day for 12
years. It has changed generations of Americans from libertarians to
authoritarians. The government bamboozled individuals into believing that
robotic group-chanting in government schools is a beautiful expression of
freedom. http://rexcurry.net/pledgetragedy.html
For more information contact -
Tinny Ray
Stop The Pledge
P.O. Box 8816
Tampa, FL 33674-8816
pledge-of-...@earthlink.net