Posted on 06/12/2004 7:52:58 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4
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We had to do that in nord deutscheland, cause we weren't authorized salute rounds.
Carter era don't you know.
Toilet paper works real good for wadding, as long as you are upset by a few fires.
Very interesting and informative. Only on FR.
LOL Why wasn't this post here on Friday night?? During the salute at the library, my wife asked about the commands that were being shouted. Because I was trying to count the shots, I gestured for her to be quiet. That got her mad.
Seriously, it sounded like the person in charge was addressing each separate gun, viz "Gun [x], stand by, FIRE" ???
Have you ever heard of a case in which too few or too many shots were fired?
bttt
BUMP! to the Howitzers of the FIELD ARTILLERY !
The last redleg in our family was ggg grandfather Capt. S.H. Dent, commanding Dent's Alabama Battery, Hindman's Div., Breckenridge's Corps, under "that S.O.B. Bragg" at Chickamauga.
He didn't have much time to fire salutes . . . his unit pulled their 6 lb. Napoleons up Snodgrass Hill by hand because it was too steep for the horses. (My horse made it, but she wasn't dragging any field artillery.)
I noticed at the Capitol there were four cannons but only three were firing. Was the fourth on standby for just such a mishap? Or did it misfire early on? I ask because at the Reagan Library yesterday there were four cannons and all four were firing. Thanks for the insight.
But of course!
That would be my guess.
Is she of French descent? Or Irish?
we had a 21 gun salute in my back yard yesterday we live in anaheim i used blanks but my neighbors called the police
During the mid sixties, I played in both the Fifth Army Band at Ft Sheridan Illinois and then the 74th Army band at Ft. Harrison Indiana. While in the 74th Army band, I sometimes went out on 'bugle jobs' to play 'taps' at funerals even though my primary MOS was as a tuba player.
At each funeral, we had seven riflemen who fired their rifles in three vollies for the salute and then taps was played.
At one funeral on a very cold day in mid winter, on the first volly, six rifles fired and one misfired. On the second volly, the rifle that previously misfired successfully fired, but ALL the others misfired. For the third volly, it was a bunch of random shots as everyone had trouble firing their weapons.
And then, it was my turn. I unfortunately started out on the wrong note, too high, and everything went downhill from there.
I occasionally went out with Marine honor guards and on one job, they told me about one funeral that they were on where it was raining all day. The Marine folding the flag slipped and fell into the grave under the casket carrying the flag with him. He had to be helped out of the grave covered with mud.
Yep they should have shot 21 liberals out of the arty....the clintons gore kerry feingold mcain
maybe some hollywood types...
Maybe they could have shot baldwin over to France
Gun 2
stand by
FIRE !
Gun 3
stand by
FIRE !
I watched three different salutes, and at each site, there was an extra cannon that didn't fire.
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