Obama is not doing that either.

I do know that I was taught in the AF to place my hand over my heart when not in uniform. We weren’t taught what civilians were “supposed” to do.

To me, it is more of a repsect thing. I’ve always taught my kids to take their hats off, and place their hands over their heart during the National Anthem, and during the Pledge of Allegiance.

It’s interesting what your grandfather and uncles taught you…but since there is not a law (and should NOT be), then there is room for differing opinions.

Interesting.

And we used to do it when the flag passed us in a parade, too.

http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/36C3.txt
-HEAD-
Sec. 301. National anthem

-STATUTE-
(a) Designation. - The composition consisting of the words and
music known as the Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem.
(b) Conduct During Playing. - During a rendition of the national
anthem -
(1) when the flag is displayed -
(A) all present except those in uniform should stand at
attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart;
(B) men not in uniform should remove their headdress with
their right hand and hold the headdress at the left shoulder,
the hand being over the heart; and
(C) individuals in uniform should give the military salute at
the first note of the anthem and maintain that position until
the last note; and

(2) when the flag is not displayed, all present should face
toward the music and act in the same manner they would if the
flag were displayed.

-SOURCE-
(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1263.)

-MISC1-

you place your hand over your heart during the National Anthem.

Civilians, if they are veterans, have been allowed to render a hand salute since the law was enacted last summer.

The President is COMMANDER IN CHIEF!
If he salutes getting off Air Force One, why not the Flag during the National Anthem?

First, to answer your question: I am an Air Force retiree. I have always been taught that civilians place their right hand over their heart during the play of the national anthem and when the first U.S. flag goes by in a parade, for instance. I believe the same applies to Taps, but I’m not sure. If I’m in civilian clothes, I will always place my right hand on my heart at a time that I would salute were I in uniform. I might be wrong… but the salute doesn’t hurt.

I first saw this photo on Lucianne on November 12 and took it as accurate because of the source; however, still wanting to validate it, I searched Veterans Day videos of the event where I could isolate the photo. Then I came across Eric’s input saying it was Memorial Day, not Veterans Day. That is when I searched again and came across this amateur video. In the video, the TelePrompter on the right is above the head of the officer on the right - different angle from the above photo, but same location, same ceremony, same time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obhNsD5TbJ8
Same military officers and civilian, same position of the flowers, the podium, the officers and civilian - but different angle. If you go to approx 2:10, you see him starting to straighten his arms from having them in front of him, getting ready for the next movement and then they all start saluting around 2:33 and you can clearly see him with his hand on his heart. At no point while the officers are still saluting does he take his hand down. Then around 3:41, you see a woman remove her hand from her heart and then it pans to the dais and they all remove their hand. It is just not believable that he would have, at any point during Taps, removed his hand to assume that pose, then resumed it.

Many people, no doubt, took videos and photos of the event. Easy to PhotoShop O from an earlier stand with hands in front of him and transpose it to the saluting frames. I was taken in because of last year’s flap during the campaign, eager to believe, I guess, that it had happened again:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/obama-salute.htm

but I disagree with them. When he was sworn in as President, Barack Obama became the Commander in Chief. Salutes should be returned.

Didn’t Bill Clinton return salutes?

The officers told him that there was no need to return a salute.

the military when he is going onto Marine One…..so he has done and CHOSE NOT to this day like the coward he is!

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

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AP article on “troop morale” yesterday and, I have trouble with the conclusions the AP reached, The AP claimed that morale of the individual soldier was high, but unit morale was lower. I can see a bit of that, there’s always the “my unit sucks” mindset out there in a few soldiers.
AP also claims that levels of “depression, anxiety and PTSD were “about the same” as 2007 levels but twice those of 2005. But those levels went down in Iraq. No kidding, when the war heats up, soldiers get anxious? Wow, thanks for the heads-up, AP.
I know the AP didn’t want to, but they actually make the case for a “Surge” in Afghanistan, if you can severely limit the effectiveness of the terrorists, morale goes up, not down. Wonder if anyone in the White House can help the Bower in Chief connect those dots?

He wasn’t really bowing to the emperor, he just looking for a lost contact lens.

That’s not just a bow — it’s practically groveling. Maybe it doesn’t have quite the punchline, but in the realm of non-verbal expression, this would be the equivalent of “I am a jelly donut” x10 (of course, unlike JKF, Obama actually did it).

Shill for The Leader elsewhere.

so I guess that’s why he would put his hand over his heart for that.

for some country in Africa. He places his hand over his heart for the anthem of every country but ours it seems.

it even makes it to China. It’s very scary to have him do it.

McCain and more conservative Republicans should have done a lot of things, but one thing they should have made a campaign issue is the fact that this POS refused to reveal anything about his past.

No medical records.
No college and law school applications.
No college and law school transcripts.
No passport records.
No financial records re who financed his education and his overseas travels.
Etc., etc., etc.

I hope the American people, and our Party, learn from this presidency that they must insist that a prerequisite for running for this most powerful elected position on earth is a full-blown release of every scrap of paper about each candidate’s past.

Investigative journalists used to dig into this aspect of every candidate and write articles about any failures to disclose. Of course, other than at Fox News, no such investigative jounalists exist in the Minion Media.

So, the Republican Party has to make the demand. If Barry Soetoro runs for re-election, this time around we must demand that he disclose the information he refused to disclose and, when he refuses again, make it a defining issue.

Thank you.
ColdWarrior