[ARC5] Flag salute by veterans okayed!

[Michael Tauson]

Hi, Mac,

On 8/7/07, D C *Mac* Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com> wrote:

> BUT, as my Senator Inhofe pointed out, the current rules have always been
> interpreted by the military services to be that only uniformed personnel were
> permitted to salute!

That "interpretation" is done in the Pentagon by folks who don't have
anything better to do much like the laws are made folks in in cushy
offices, not by the people out fighting and bleeding and dying.  (I
think Clausewitz had something to say about that but the quote's just
not coming.  The idea was that decisions made in chambers are often
ratified on the battlefield, though that's someone else's restatement
of the concept.)

I haven't answered to the Pentagon or any of its representatives for
42 years, of which 37 were spent getting them to acknowledge my
disability claim (I'm rated 100% now) so I don't feel any great
responsibility to them or their interpretations of much of anything.
I salute the flag as I always have and, through doing so, I honor
those who didn't come home, came home in a box or came home someone
different from who left, be it physically or psychologically.  I know
I'm not the only vet who thinks this way too ... aside from Greg who
already spoke up.

Best regards,

Michael