[Milsurplus] Flag salute by veterans okayed!

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

If I remember correctly, the rules specify that only
the driver of a vehicle on base/post at reveille or
retreat is the one to exit the vehicle and render
the salute for all in the vehicle.

Hopefully, this simple comment won't bring down
another bunch of wrath.


Mac, K2GKK/5
Oklahoma City
USAF, 1961-1981



----Original Message Follows----
From: "Dick" <rertman at ix.netcom.com>
To: "MILSURPLUS" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>,"jwatkins" 
<jwatkins at omantel.net.om>
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Flag salute by veterans okayed!
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:21:54 -0700

I'm glad to see the law clarified so I can continue to salute the flag
long after I got out of the Army, since I've been doing it all along.

My work takes me to many military bases around the world and I
always stop my car, get out and salute when the base flag is being
raised or lowered.  Nobody on those bases has ever hassled me
about it.

The individual services, of course, require their members in uniform
to salute the flag as it passes in parade or is raised or lowered and
on some other occasions.  Until now, the services typically directed
members not in uniform to place the right hand over the heart.

I, for one, am happy with Sen. Inhofe's clarification and proud to
render a salute.

By the way, I was doing some work at a Navy station in HI some
years ago and we had a long weekend off, so I decided to go out
on a 3-day deep sea fishing charter with some friends.  As we
headed out to sea and passed the USS Arizona Memorial, the
charter boat skipper called us to the rail to render honors, and he
did it again on the way back in.  I wish I could remember that
charter skipper's name.  Bravo Zulu, skipper!!!

Dick