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While we're on the topic of saluting the flag, how bout a history lesson:
Two words: Bellamy Salute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel…
The inventor of the saluting gesture was James B. Upham, junior partner and editor of the The Youth's Companion. Bellamy recalled Upham, upon reading the pledge, came into the posture of the salute, snapped his heels together, and said "Now up there is the flag; I come to salute; as I say 'I pledge allegiance to my flag,' I stretch out my right hand and keep it raised while I say the stirring words that follow."
In the 1920s, Italian fascists adopted the Roman salute to symbolize their claim to have revitalized Italy on the model of ancient Rome. This was quickly copied by the German Nazis, creating the Nazi salute.