Government schools in the USA taught the stiff-arm salute to segregated native-Americans
on reservations et cetera.
Some people state that the following photo was taken in Hawaii in March 1941.
http://rexcurry.net/USA-pledge-of-allegiance-rexcurrydotnet.jpg
Another person claims that the photograph shows "American Indian children
salute the flag as part of their instruction. Photo courtesy of the University
of Utah
Marriott Library Special Collections."
As another example see http://rexcurry.net/pledge_of_allegiance.jpg
Some people have described the reservations as concentration camps.
Thus, the USA preceded V.I. Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hilter in the
use of such camps. Later, Franklin Roosevelt followed a similar path with
the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter5a1.html
You will probably enjoy this remarkable photo of the early American
straight-arm salute http://rexcurry.net/pledge_of_allegiance.jpg
This url has more videos and photos http://rexcurry.net/pledge_of_allegiance_videos_images.html
This is the youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4
It is disturbing to realize that during WWI (and before and after WWI)
when the U.S. fought Germany, the U.S. used the stiff-armed salute and
it was spreading
outside of the Pledge of Allegiance into more general use in the U.S.,
and it would be adopted later by Germany in WWII (and the stiff-armed
salute
continued to be used by the U.S. before, during and after WWII, even
though Congress attempted to change it to the hand-over-the-heart in 1942.
Not
everyone in the U.S. immediately dropped the traditional American stiff-armed
salute for the heart gesture merely because Congress suggested it).
The linked photo shows how the USA's government schools taught the
stiff-arm salute to segregated native-americans on reservations. The book
"Adolf Hitler" by John Toland (Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
Garden City, New York 1976) states: "Hitler's concept of concentration
camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed,
to his studies of English and United States history. He admired the camps
for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the wild West;
and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's extermination-by
starvation and uneven combat-of the red savages who could not be tamed
by captivity." (Pg 702) http://rexcurry.net/pledge_of_allegiance.jpg
It is disturbing to note that people were required by law to perform
the Pledge of Allegiance (and the stiff-armed salute) and were persecuted
for refusing (including expulsion, prosecution, violence, children removed
from parents, even lynchings).
That the concept of the "Roman salute" did not exist when Francis Bellamy
wrote his pledge (and for decades thereafter) also means that the concept
of the
"Roman salute" did not exist when Jacques-Louis David lived and painted
"Oath of the Horatii" and thus David was NOT thinking of a real or imagined
"Roman salute" when he painted the Horatii, nor did David ever use
the term "Roman salute." In other words, if one researches the earliest
examples of the use of the term/concept "Roman salute" it is recent, coming
decades after the Pledge of Allegiance's stiff-armed salute.
http://rexcurry.net/roman-salute-oxford-english-dictionary.html
The Horatii lie (that the painting was the origin of the "Roman salute"
myth) first appeared on Wikipedia, deliberately fabricated by a liar to
cover-up Dr. Curry's discovery that the Pledge was the origin of the Nazi
salute. In the painting, 3 brothers are reaching for weapons (and
the two figures in back are reaching with their left hands). The same
liar who created the Horatii lie had, until he was debunked, previously
claimed
that the stiff-armed salute was an actual ancient Roman salute, and
he posted the lie that Roman statues displaying "adlocutio" (a gesture made
by
a person speaking) showed the "ancient Roman salute" that he claimed
was adopted by Bellamy. The newly substituted Horatii lie has been
mindlessly
repeated by many people (as the adlocutio lie was repeated and still
is) because wakipedia glorifies itself as an encyclopedia, even though
it is
merely an anonymous bulletin board where anyone can post anything.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge_of_allegiance_videos_images.html
Francis Bellamy never used the term "Roman salute" when describing
his pledge's salute and he was not influenced by Jacques-Louis David's
painting
"Oath of the Horatii." One reason why Francis Bellamy never used the
term "Roman salute" in any way is because the concept of the "Roman salute"
did
not exist when Bellamy wrote his pledge and for decades thereafter.
http://rexcurry.net/roman-salute-oxford-english-dictionary.html
Francis Bellamy clearly explained that his pledge began with a military
salute that was then extended out toward the flag. In practice, the second
gesture was performed palm-down with a stiff-arm when the military
salute was merely pointed out at the flag by disinterested children forced
to do
Bellamy's robotic chanting daily in government schools. That is the
salute developed from Francis Bellamy's Pledge of Allegiance and its use
of the
military salute (and how the USA's Pledge salute led to the Nazi salute).
http://rexcurry.net/pledge_military.html
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