The US Pledge of Allegiance, where Americans swear loyalty to their flag, was originally accompanied by the "Bellamy salute," ...

As the pledge quickly became popular, a magazine called the Youth Companion, where Bellamy worked, decided to create a salute ...

Though invented by his aide James Upham, the Bellamy salute is named for the author of the Pledge of Allegiance, a Baptist minister named Francis Bellamy who pushed to get flags and the pledge ...