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Old Thu Jun 19, 2008, 03:42pm
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Originally Posted by Dakota
Anyone know what the ORIGINAL civilian salute of the flag during the pledge and anthem was and when and why it was changed to the hand over the heart? (This is a test.)

Sticks in my mind that it was a raised hand, and it was changed in the late 1930s because it was too much like the Nazi salute. Or am I misremembering again?
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