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To: JNRoberts
Have you ever used a Compass for drawing a circle ?

Dose the Pin move as fast as the Pencil ?

I was Honor Guard in the Navy Depending on what turn is being made left right or center turn any of the three has a pivot point .

Sorry i didn't see the Honor Guard Procession you were speaking of but if one person is out of march step while turning it can make it look like it was screwed up.

If the Turn was executed wrong that's a whole other matter someone hasn't been drilled enough or wasn't concentrating on the Business at hand.

34 posted on 01/16/2011 8:22:57 AM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Atomic, appreciate the sincere reply. I think if you were able to see the video, you would see that, while I understand your analogy, this would not be the case here because all of the other soldiers turned at precisely the same time. And they did so rather rapidly.

The last one paused, then turned much slower which made me wonder if there was a significance to it. Not only that he didn’t turn with the rest......but the much slower turn.

I do appreciate the sincere attempts to explain. I am beginning to think it was just a mess up but as i said...that is a blessing too in showing the humanity , the imperfect precision, the imperfect humanity even at our most sacred times.....even missing man reflects that to some degree although I realize the missing jet represents the fallen soldier.....and that is certainly imperfect humanity.....thanks again.


35 posted on 01/16/2011 8:33:35 AM PST by JNRoberts
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

The “Right Face” was executed while the audience was singing the lead man in the column formation obviously missed the cue.. which was either a “Right Face” command given by a team member or some other cue that he simply missed


37 posted on 01/16/2011 8:38:21 AM PST by davidosborne (2012 will be the year of the INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE ! let's GOOOH !)
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