Urban Legend: Soldier crossing his fingers while shaking hands with Hillary Clinton

March 30, 2005 D. H. McKee

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Photograph shows soldier shaking hands with Sen. Hillary Clinton while crossing his fingers.
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Military history includes many instances when soldiers who fell into the hands of the enemy were trotted out before photographers or television cameras by their captors for purposes of propaganda: — to create false images intended to trick audiences into believing that the prisoners were actually well-cared for, sympathized with their captors, or were voluntarily denouncing the political policies of their home countries. Likewise, military history includes many instances in which such captured soldiers managed to inserted subtle and furtive signs into propagandistic images to express their defiance, to indicate that the information they were relaying was false, or to signal that they were acting under duress. (One of the most well-known examples of this phenomenon is the infamous middle finger gesture employed by the crew of the USS Pueblo in photographs after their ship was captured by North Korea in 1968.)
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Crossed Fingers)

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