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Re: saluting
Cheryl Singhal (csinghal@CAPACCESS.ORG)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:22:44 -0400
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, David G. Hills wrote:
> Chuck Batteau said:
>
> "Scouts saluting the Scoutmaster? What will be next, marching at quick
> time and everybody standing when the Scoutmaster walks in the room?
>
> I don't have my old Scout handbook with me, but I'll bet it's NOT in
> there.
> (Mine is the small "Handbook for Boys" circa 1956.)"
>
> Well, it is in mine (copyright 1945, printed June 1946). On pages 39 and
> 40:
>
> "As the late Lord Baden-Powell remarked on a visit to America--"Ther is
> a right way to greet Scout Officials. Every Scout in America should know
> it and use it." It is a part of good breeding and manners.
Please note the dates on those books: in 1946 something like 80% of all
adult males were veterans. According to my uncle (part of the 80%),
after four years, "if it moves, salute it" was an as automatic a reflex
as breathing. Saluting a non-military person makes that non-military
person uncomfortable. Courtesy is the act of making others comfortable.
The late, great, Lord B-P was an upperclass Englishman to whom such signs
of "respect" were second nature. Such things are not the stuff of modern
American life (and frankly, I suspect they're not part of modern English
life either, but I could be wrong).
My opinion only, yours, and his, and hers, may well differ.
Cheryl
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