On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:24:54 GMT, "\"Stop the Pledge of Allegiance\""
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> wrote:
>The Judge probably didn't know it, nor anyone else involved, but that
salute
>was actually the early American salute and originated with the Pledge of
>Allegiance. Wouldn't it be interesting if the Judge or the Media spun the
>story as "Judge bans early American salute to Pledge of Allegiance"?
>
The pledge with the arm extended and palm up at the moment the words
after "I pledge allegiance to" - arm extended and palm up - "the flag
of the United States of america . . ." was in vogue until the WWII. At
that time that motion during the pledge resembled the Nazi salute,
whose motion was with the palm down.
DCI
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