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Bellamy salute. The Bellamy salute is a palm-out salute created by James B. Upham as the gesture that was to accompany the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America, whose text had been written by Francis Bellamy. It was also known as the " flag salute " during the period when it was used with the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Who Was “Bellamy?”
- How It Became Bellamy’s Salute
- And That Was Fine… Until
- So Congress Ditched It
- Other Changes to The Pledge
Francis J. Bellamy actually wrote the original Pledge of Allegiance at the request of Daniel Sharp Ford, owner of a popular Boston-based magazine of the day named the Youth’s Companion. In 1892, Ford began a campaign to place American flags in every classroom in the nation. Ford believed that with the Civil War(1861-1865) still so fresh in the memo...
Bellamy and Sharp also felt a physical, non-military style salute should be given to the flag as the Pledge was recited. When the instructions for the salute were printed in the Youth’s Companion under his name, the gesture became known as the Bellamy Salute. Performed as described in Bellamy’s instructions published in The Youth’s Companion, the B...
Americans had no problem with the Bellamy Salute and rendered it proudly until the days before World War II, when Italians and Germans began showing loyalty to dictators Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler with the disturbingly similar “Heil Hitler!” salute. Americans giving the Bellamy Salute began to fear that they might be mistaken as showing alle...
On June 22, 1942, at the urging of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Congress passed the first law establishing the procedure to be used by civilians when pledging allegiance to the flag. This law failed to take into account the controversy over the use of the Bellamy salute, stating that the Pledge was to “be rendered by standi...
Besides the demise of the Bellamy Salute in 1942, the exact wording of the Pledge of Allegiance has been changed over the years. For example, the phrase “I pledge allegiance to the flag,” was original written by Bellamy as “I pledge allegiance to my flag.” The “my” was dropped out of concerns that immigrants to the United States, even those who had...
- Robert Longley
Feb 2, 2015 · Published February 2, 2015. Updated February 14, 2020. This was the United States' national salute until being replaced by the Pledge of Allegiance in 1942. The Bellamy Salute, the national salute of the U.S. until 1942’s Flag Code was adopted. The photograph seen above wasn’t taken at an American school that supported the Nazis, though you ...
Sep 16, 2023 · Saluting the Flag. Few Americans today remember what was known as the Bellamy Salute. Americans would raise their right arms with palms facing down while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. A photo from the 1936 Olympics in Berlin shows the three American medal winners in the men’s high jump—bronze medalist Delos Thurber, gold medalist ...
Dec 22, 2013 · Bob Greene. Until 1892, there was no such thing as a Pledge of Allegiance. Daniel Sharp Ford, the owner of a magazine called Youth’s Companion, was on a crusade to put American flags in every ...
Jul 9, 2015 · According to the Armed Forces History Museum, today’s standard salute – right hand touching the brim of the head cover with the palm down – was in place by 1820. The museum says the palm down portion of the salute may have been influenced by the salute style of the British Navy at the time. A sailor's hands were often dirty, and exposing ...
May 22, 2020 · How the United States military came up with its salute. Following is a transcript of the video. Robert J. Dalessandro: The origin of the military salute that we use in all the armed services of ...
