Military courtesy change

I picked up on something very funny this morning. CNN showed Pres. Bush leaving HM-1. The marine at the front step saluted, GW returned it, and as he walked away, the marine executed a right face to stand facing GW's back...something that was missing in eight years of the Clinton presidency.

The traditional Marine Corps mark of respect was rendered to the new president. That one goes back to the days in the rigging, when the marine orderly to the ship's captain always faced him, no matter his direction of movement, to be ready to receive an order.

Who says that enlisted men can't hold back when they don't respect someone? ...And for eight years, they did.

How neat. The subtlety of it is elegant in it's simplicity. Clinton never knew the difference, yet it occurred in front of the whole world. Here's to the Marine Corps

-- David Whitelaw (i'm@the.REZ), March 03, 2001

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Subject: Re: [GOV]Military courtesy change for Bush Posted By: Carl Lilly (Registered User) Posted At: 3/3/01 9:28:04 pm From IP: Reply This is an urban legend which has been circulating for a while. Here's a link at freerepublic, read it, about four or five posts down, you'll get a hotlink to the numerous other threads that have been started on the subject...

www.freerepublic.com/foru...a23832.htm

It's B.S. folks...

Sorry

Edited by: Carl Lilly at: 3/3/01 9:28:04 pm

Sorry folks. Looks like I fell for an urban legend.

-- David Whitelaw (i'm@the.REZ), March 03, 2001.

Yeah, real neat.

But why would the Marine salute someone who deserted the National Guard?

-- (dubya@the.traitor), March 04, 2001.

As opposed to a flag burning, draft dodging, communistic leaning President that disgraced his office and his country? An evil man, left unchecked, that would have weakened our military defences and given us on a silver platter to the PRC?

-- The real (evil@is.Clinton), March 04, 2001.

David, you are right! I've have a son that is an ex-Marine and a daughter in the Air Force and that is exactly how our officers and enlisted are treating President Bush now and probably clear thru his presidency,regardless of what you might hear to the contrary. The other side would like very much to make you believe otherwise. They have tremendous respect for him and it will grow as time passes.

-- Boswell (cjseed@webtv.net), March 04, 2001.

They're just glad because the traitor gave them a pay raise.

-- (dubya@the.traitor), March 04, 2001.

They've had respect for him since his first day in office cause they knew their commander in chief was of higher caliber and they waited 8 years to get him. Ask any of them and they will tell you it is about more than just a payraise. They are proud once again about what they are doing and what they stand for.

-- Boswell (cjseed@webtv.net), March 04, 2001.

Never figured you for a jarhead David. Nice find.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), March 04, 2001.

"They've had respect for him since his first day in office cause they knew their commander in chief was of higher caliber and they waited 8 years to get him."

Bwaahahaahaaa!!! If you believe that I have some swampland in Florida I'd like to sell you! Dubya is a filthy rotten coward who has his Daddy buy his way into the Guard so that he wouldn't have to do real service. Then he went AWOL on a drug binge because he's a junkie. Spoiled brat never got his fingernails dirty in his entire fucking life. He is SCUM!

-- (dubya@the.traitor), March 04, 2001.

Clinton didn't deserve to be commander in chief of the military. It always pissed me off that he didn't follow protacal and salute the trupes when they did him, until someone told him he had to. Then he had a limp pathetic excuse for a salute back to the troops that was more of an insult then a retutn of the respect they gace him. The least he could have done is learn how to salute!. Bus as for Bush, he dishonered the military by his actions in it. I am sure some of the troops who salute him know in their minds that he doesn't deserve their respect because of his poor performance in the military.

-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), March 04, 2001.

Hey Dave, that story is a hoax.

-- Dave is a (typical@republican.moron), March 04, 2001.

At least Bush didn't declare marshall law and make himself President for Life and send everyone to the American Death Camps like Klintoon did.

-- (doomer@in.denial), March 05, 2001.

Boswell, look up "hoax" in the dictionary. One of the reasons I can't fully support Bush is that I don't want to be associated with jingoistic, reactionary, sad losers like you.

-- Jesus (martinez@mexico.gov), March 05, 2001.