Re: Happy 4th July!

[Steve Desjardins]

For most of my life I assumed that this was the typical phallic gesture.
 I saw the "Long Bow" version on one of those little pre-commercial
snippets on the History Channel.  Even they claimed it had no proven
basis in fact.  If, however, there was an English gesture that made a V,
maybe this was a corruption.  Just out of curiosity, is this V gesture
like the one an American would use for victory or "peace"?