U.S. schoolchildren perform the “Bellamy salute” to the American flag in 1941. [Photo: Wiki Commons] Later examples include a 1921 sculpture by François-Léon Siccard in the Paris Panthéon.

A salute to the American flag To modern eyes, it would be jarring to see a group of schoolchildren giving the stiff-armed salute to the American flag. But the gesture was commonplace for decades.

US schoolchildren performing the Bellamy salute to the flag of the United States, 1941. Following the French example, the salute was adopted by other republics – including, in certain contexts ...

A salute to the American flag To modern eyes, it would be jarring to see a group of schoolchildren giving the stiff-armed salute to the American flag. But the gesture was commonplace for decades.

The Roman salute was appropriated by Fascists in the 1920s; the term ‘fascism’ comes from the Roman word ‘fasces’, which were ...

Flag etiquette allows veterans and active duty personnel to salute it as we learned; non-veterans and other civilians are asked to remove their caps and place their hands over their hearts.

A photo from the 1942 Lolomi, the yearbook of what is today A.C. Davis High School in Yakima, shows students in the auditorium saluting the American flag with what was known as the "Bellamy Salute." ...

Nov. 22—The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma recently established a new salute for the southeastern Oklahoma tribal nation's flag. Choctaw Nation District 11 Councilman Robert Karr, who authored a ...