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Thu Jun 19, 2008, 09:31pm

Dakota

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re: hand over heart.

You guys are correct. It originally resembled the Nazi salute (as stated, actually called the Roman salute). The civilian salute was changed by President Roosevelt because it looked too much like the Nazi salute.

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