[GeoStL] Re: A proper salute
- From: "Dan Eubanks" <deubanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:37:31 -0600
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Geo is short for George you know. :)
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Subject: [GeoStL] Re: A proper salute
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...or it could just be that they were told to salute that way.
In any case, unless the President is Geocaching, I don't find this
appropriate to post on this list.
>From: "Dan Eubanks" <deubanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [GeoStL] A proper salute
>Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:05:18 -0600
>
>-
>Whether you do or do not like George W. Bush as our President, this
>message reveals some interesting plateau's he has reached.
>
>First, an observation. Have you noticed a difference in the salute
given
>by our military men and women as President Bush walks by? Most folks
>would not notice anything, but those of us who have served in the
>military see it right away.
>
>Next time pay close attention when President Bush leaves his helicopter
>or Air Force One, the honor guards salute and face him as he
disembarks,
>then turn their faces towards him as he passes by. They continue to
>salute his back as he walks away. This kind of salute has not been seen
>in the previous eight years, though it is customary courtesy to the
>Commander-in-Chief. You see, soldiers aren't required to turn and face
>the President as they salute. They are not required to salute his back.
>They are only required to salute. They can remain face-forward the
>entire time. And that is what they did during the previous
>administration. Our soldiers were forced to obey his orders, but they
>were not forced to respect him. From their salutes, we can surmise that
>they did not.
>
>Why is such respect afforded to President Bush? He doesn't even know
how
>to bite his lower lip and not get teary-eyed whenever he speaks!
>
>The following incident from Major General Van Antwerp may give us an
>insight. Gen. Antwerp is president of the Officers' Christian
>Fellowship. He lost nearly all his staff when the Pentagon was attacked
>September 11. His executive officer LTC Brian Birdwell was badly burned
>and in the hospital when President Bush visited him. Our President
spent
>time and prayed with Brian. As he was getting ready to leave, he went
to
>the foot of Brian's bed and saluted. He held his salute until Brian was
>able to raise his burned and bandaged arm, ever so slowly, in return.
>The Commander-in-Chief almost never initiates a salute, except in the
>case of a Congressional Medal of Honor winner. The injured soldier did
>not have to return the salute. But he did, out of respect to his
>President ... a Soldiers' President.
>
>Congressman JC Watts (R. Oklahoma) said, "Character is doing the right
>thing when nobody is looking," (My favorite quote of all time). The
>nation and world learned some of what our last President did when
nobody
>was looking; that President has been disbarred, the worst disgrace
>(other than imprisonment) to a lawyer. CNN will have a difficult time
>shining his or his wife's tarnished images.
>
>In this time of war and danger, I am so grateful to have a President
>whom the soldiers salute -- fully. On Special Report with Brit Hume, at
>the close of the show when they normally have some funny video clip,
>they showed President Bush and the First Lady on their way to Maine to
>leave for Camp David for the weekend.
>As the video starts, the First Lady is leading the way into the
>helicopter with the spaniel dog on the leash, and the president is
right
>behind her with the Scotty on the leash. As the First Lady entered the
>chopper, the Marine at the gangway saluted and held his salute. The
>Scottie the president was walking decided it wanted to sit right when
he
>got to the steps. The president pulled on its leash, but the stubborn
>Scottie persisted in sitting. The president bent down and scooped up
the
>pooch and entered Marine One. After he entered, the Marine cut his
>salute and returned to the position of attention. Moments later the
>President reemerged from the helicopter and out onto the steps. The
>Marine was standing at attention, head and eyes straight ahead. The
>President leaned over and tapped him on the left arm. The startled
>Marine turned his body toward the President and received his returned
>salute!
>
>I was so impressed by this true act of respect for our military people
>by our President! He really does get it. Most any other person of his
>stature would have just continued his journey, disregarding the
>neglected return salute. Not George W. Bush. He is earning the respect
>of the military community, not expecting it -- as most have and would.
>
>President George W. Bush; the man who admitted to having a drinking
>problem in younger years, and whose happy-go-lucky lifestyle led him to
>mediocre grades in college and an ill-fated oil venture. Who mangled
>syntax, and whose speaking miss-steps became known as "Bushisms." He
>came within a hair's breadth of losing the election in November. Bush
>named Jesus Christ as Lord of his life on public TV. Not an Oblique
>reference to being "born-again" or having a "life change." He actually
>said the un-PC-like phrase, "Jesus Christ!"
>
>On September 11, he was thrust into a position only known by the likes
>of Roosevelt, Churchill, Lincoln, and Washington. The weight of the
>world was on his shoulders, and the responsibility of a generation was
>on his soul. So President George W. Bush walked to his seat at the
front
>of the National Cathedral just three days after two of the most
>impressive symbols of American capitalism and prosperity virtually
>evaporated.
>
>When the history of this time is written, it will be acknowledged by
>friend and foe alike that President George W. Bush came of age in that
>cathedral and lifted a nation off its knees. In what was one of the
most
>impressive exhibitions of self-control in presidential history,
>President George W. Bush was able to deliver his remarks without losing
>his resolve, focus, or confidence. God's hand, which guided him through
>that sliver-thin election, now rested fully on him. As he walked back
to
>his seat, the camera angle was appropriate. He was virtually alone in
>the scene, alone in that massive place with God, just him and the Lord.
>
>Back at his seat, George H. Bush reached over and took his son's hand.
>In that gesture his father seemed to say, "I wish I could do this for
>you, son, but I can't. You have to do this on your own."
>
>President George W. Bush squeezed back and gave him a look of peace
that
>said, "I don't have to do it alone, Dad. I've got Help."
>
>What a blessing to have a professing Christian as President. Please
take
>a moment after you read this to "pray for him." He truly does have the
>weight of the world on his shoulders. Pray that God will sustain him
and
>give him wisdom and discernment in his decisions.
>
>Pray for his protection and that of his family.
>
>
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