Reagan started the salute “tradition” and I seriously think the current executive of the executive branch should have been honest from the start and never saluted.
For me, I would hug.
I went to Lejeune for my son’s homecoming. The first Marine I saw was a Military Policeman in the parking lot at the gate. I told him why I was there and gave him a big hug. He stood as stiff as a board, no smile, no reply to my request, but at least he knows he’s loved.
I love it!!! {^)
Remember when Obama first took office, that Tuesday morning I think it was that Air Force One made a fly-by of New York City in a move eerily like 911, and which terrified Manhattan folks for a bit? Official spin is that it was a photo-op for PR photos. I paid very close and special attention to actual news reports with real fact, not journalistic sleight-of-hand to lead you to conclude facts not in evidence.
Knowing the facts -- or lack thereof -- the best explanation for that was that the U.S. military openly defied Obama that day and reminded him exactly who had him by the balls. I believe they did so again with the pirate "negotiations" involving the rescue of the captured ship captain when some SEALS stepped in killed the bad guys.
In real people on the ground, let alone military, probably two in three Americans think Obama stinks like yesterday's diapers. Do the math -- leftists have to cheat with anti-voter-ID illegal motor-voter dead vote machine elections because they are a minority, and leftists dominate America's self-image in the MSM. But the truth is this: Obama's "support," along with support for much of leftism, is illusion, pretend, smoke and mirrors. Illusions always eventually meet reality. It's happening now.