Back in my day, not too long ago, we would stop & salute on or off duty. You knew the time, you heard the music, you PAID RESPECT!!!
My brother and I still talk about coming back from overseas and being surprised & disappointed when the movie theater didn’t play the anthem before the trailers.
Back in my day, not too long ago, we would stop & salute on or off duty. You knew the time, you heard the music, you PAID RESPECT!!!
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Few years back I was going on Ft Detrick MD and went through the gate just before evening colors.
People came to a stop, I stopped, got out and saluted. The guy behind me blew his horn when I stopped, got out of his car and started yelling something... I was standing at attention and rolled my eyes around and saw the gate MP (there were a also a couple of ‘renta cops’ on the gate) and the fool behind me yelled you will move now...
Ceremony ended, MP talking to guy behind me, I went and made my delivery and as I was coming out 15 or so minutes later, the MP was still there with the guy, giving his car one of those COMPLETE ANAL checks...
I tapped my horn, saluted the MP and laughed at the idiot.