The Bellamy Salute consisted of each person – man, woman or child – extending his or her right arm straight forward, angling slightly upward, fingers pointing directly ahead.

Instructions for carrying out the salute were also printed in Youth's Companion. The gesture came to be called the Bellamy salute, in honor of the Pledge's author.

The salute, typically called the Bellamy Salute in honor of the author of the Pledge of Allegiance, fell out of favor in the United States during World War II, after Nazis adopted a similar gesture.

The Bellamy Salute was first demonstrated on Oct . 21, 1892 according to Bellamy’s published instructions for the “National School Celebration of Columbus Day” as the “400th Anniversary of ...

FILE - In this July 18, 1998, file photo, Karl Wolf raises his arm in a Nazi salute as he marches through the streets of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where scores of police in riot gear stood between ...

The Bellamy Salute consisted of each person – man, woman or child – extending his or her right arm straight forward, angling slightly upward, fingers pointing directly ahead.