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18K - A contest

AVB

AVB

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Well, I'm still maintaining my title of #1 post whore with 18K closing in soon so I have an easy contest for any member of CP that has been here for at least 6 months and made 50 posts.

The first one to correctly explain this picture wins.

Salute.jpg
 
Too easy Ray,

The pledge of allegiance was the origin of the salute of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party). It is a brown stain on American heritage. The original pledge of allegiance used a straight-arm salute because Francis Bellamy was a self-proclaimed national socialist who promoted “military socialism” (a Bellamy term). To promote militarism, Bellamy started the pledge of allegiance with a military salute. The military salute was held for the phrase “I pledge allegiance” and then the right arm extended straight outward toward the flag for the rest of the chant.
 
A photo of several students protesting Colorado's mandatory Pledge of Allegiance law by giving the Nazi salute
 
While you are correct, it is the Bellamy salute, it was not the origin of the Fascist salute. That goes back to the Roman salute which the Italians brought back in a modified form (no chest thump first) and that the Germans copied.

From Wiki
Reciting of the pledge is accompanied by a salute. An early version of the salute, adopted in 1892, was known as the Bellamy salute. It ended with the arm outstretched and the palm upwards. It eventually evolved to palm downward. Because of the similarity between the Bellamy salute and the Nazi salute, President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted the hand-over-the-heart gesture as the salute to be rendered by civilians during the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem in the United States, instead of the Bellamy salute. This was done when Congress officially adopted the Flag Code on June 22, 1942.

More on the Bellamy salute

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I was going to say that this was in fact a grainy but current photo of a class in New York being indoctrinated on why the stop smoking taxes on cigars are helping school age boys and girls. .
This training is a newly required part of the curriculum mandated by the Cigar Czar to NYC schools.

PJ


PS. I hope someone can tell me where to sign up to be the Cigar Czar. Sounds like a great job with lots of benefits.
 
Interesting picture Ray, thanks for sharing. I don't know if you have any around your area, but if you look hard enough around Iowa, you will see some old grain silos that have swastikas on them. It has nothing to do with Nazis but I never have heard why they are on there. I've seen several of them in my travels around Iowa.
 
The Swastika was the symbol of the "Swastika Club of Freedom Township" was formed in 1923 (renamed in 1942) in rural Iowa. Also, The Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company of Waterloo, Iowa used it for some time. After being sold in 1918 they became the John Deere Tractor Company. In that time period it was a common symbol of good luck used on and for many things. When I lived in LaCrosse I saw a few old faded ones in my travels on barns and silos.

MoeCizlak said:
Interesting picture Ray, thanks for sharing. I don't know if you have any around your area, but if you look hard enough around Iowa, you will see some old grain silos that have swastikas on them. It has nothing to do with Nazis but I never have heard why they are on there. I've seen several of them in my travels around Iowa.
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Anywhere in the US northern Europeans settled, especially Scandinavians, Bohemians, and Wends, you'll find swastikas in brickwork and on signage---as Ray posted, it was a popular good luck symbol prior to WWII---originally related to Mjolnir, the hammer of Thor, in those cultures, which was also used as a symbol of protection. I saw numerous Tudor revival houses back in Spokane, WA with swastikas worked into their chimneys.

In the SW, it was used among the Dine and Hopi, and you can see it worked into the facades of surviving "Pueblo Deco" buildings in many downtowns.

Lost part of history, now.

~Boar
 
AVB said:
The Swastika was the symbol of the "Swastika Club of Freedom Township" was formed in 1923 (renamed in 1942) in rural Iowa. Also, The Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company of Waterloo, Iowa used it for some time. After being sold in 1918 they became the John Deere Tractor Company. In that time period it was a common symbol of good luck used on and for many things. When I lived in LaCrosse I saw a few old faded ones in my travels on barns and silos.

MoeCizlak said:
Interesting picture Ray, thanks for sharing. I don't know if you have any around your area, but if you look hard enough around Iowa, you will see some old grain silos that have swastikas on them. It has nothing to do with Nazis but I never have heard why they are on there. I've seen several of them in my travels around Iowa.
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I find it curious that it wasn't renamed until 1942. Were they waiting to see just how evil the Nazi's were before conducting committee meetings on considering renaming their club? "Sure they slaughtered thousands in the Spanish Civil War, Poland, Czechoslovakia and all of Europe, but let's see how this plays out before we go to the trouble of changing our symbol." :rolleyes:
 
Winnings arrived today, and I must say it was a very impressive selection of smokes!!

Thanks, again, for the contest, Ray, and at the rate you're going, should be at 20k posts by Christmas!! :rolleyes:
 
Thanks for playing. I have a killer contest being put together for whenever I reach 20K so start studying...............everything.
 
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