As the pledge quickly became popular, a magazine called the Youth Companion, where Bellamy worked, decided to create a salute to go with the words. Named the Bellamy salute, it consisted of a ...

The US Pledge of Allegiance, where Americans swear loyalty to their flag, was originally accompanied by the "Bellamy salute," which bore an uncanny resemblance to what later became associated with ...

The arm-up palm-down salute actually has an innocent American precursor and controversial history in the “Bellamy salute.” If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link ...

Editor: The kerfuffle surrounding Elon Musk’s hand salute represents historical amnesia, the national swing, and the uselessness of it. In 1892, a Baptist minister, Francis Bellamy wrote what ...