They Also Decided to Take the Swastika off the Flag
In honor of Flag Day, Pledge of Allegiance foe Rex Curry has photos of early pledgers looking like Nazis. Because of the later association with Hitler and his followers, the right-handed, straight-armed salute was replaced by the right-hand-over-heart gesture. While I share Curry's distaste for the Pledge of Allegiance's socialist origins, flag idolatry, and mindless conformism (never mind the subsequent addition of "under God"), I'm not sure this juxtaposition is fair. It's rather like making Native Americans look creepy by noting that they wove swastikas into their baskets, or suggesting ideological sympathy between Charlie Chaplin and Hitler based on their mustaches.