While perusing National Anthem and Pledges of Allegiance, I stumbled on a WTF??

LiNk

THE BELLAMY SALUTE

I mean OMGWTF???

And no, it is not a photo shop, either.



I do know about the set of Fasces(Roman root for Fascism) behind the House speaker's chair in our Congress:





And on the Mercury Dime:




And on the seat of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial:

Funny thing about the bellamy salute: My Mother-in-law is close to 80 years old and she was taught the bellamy slaute as a kid, and taught it to her students as a teacher in a one-room school house in south Dakota right before WW2. But that's not the funny part. The funny part is she taught it to her kids and on my wife's first day of grade school, she (my wife) whipped out the nazi salute when all the other kids had their hands on their hearts.

Up until the Nazis coopted the bellamy salute, it's what we did here in the States. After that we opted for the hand-over-heart.

Lots and lots of fascinating history connections tied to Fascist Germany.

Check out the history of Nazi Germany's single most recognisable symbol.


Swastika

And even though the Swastika has a lengthy world wide history,
because of it's single connection to Nazi Germany, you won't see it used anyplace, at any time, very likely ever again.



I might add The history of the American Bund is also fascinating.

Actually sky, there are swastika's all over Japan, as they are a prominant shinto and buddhist symbol.

I was a little taken aback the first time I went to a shrine and saw swastika's everywhere.

In fact, on every map, they use the swastika as the symbol to mark the location of a temple.

However, it's backwards and not slanted like the Nazi one.

Thanks Scorp.

I guess because of America's contacts with the Swastika and it's spin associations,
it would be more accurate to say it won't be seen in or on anything American or European.

I've learned more stuff about America from this site than I ever did in all my years in school!