Red, White, Blue, and Uncle Who?: The Story Behind Some of America's Patriotic Symbols

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Summary: "Uncle Who? Sam, Joe & Adolph?" by RexCurry.net
Review: Well constructed, but needs a tad more info, specifically about the original socialist salute to the U.S. flag (it resembled the salute of the monstrous National Socialist German Workers' Party) and that the pledge's author was a socialist who wrote the pledge to promote socialism in the most socialistic institution -government schools. The pledge author was a member of the "Nationalism" movement and a vice president of its socialist auxiliary group, whose members wanted the federal government to nationalize most of the American economy. He saw government schools as a means to his socialist "Nationalism." The pledge author lived long enough to see a similar salute and a similar philosophy espoused by the National Socialist German Workers'Party. As the only person who collects and exposes the frightening historical photos of the original socialist salute to the U.S. flag, I find most books on the pledge deficient in that regard. It is amazing that books don't examine the issue of whether the pledge should be dropped entirely, especially for young children in government schools.