From: johnf@panix.com   
      
   In article ,   
     wrote:   
   >On Friday, February 7, 2003 at 8:21:33 PM UTC, Frisbee® MCNGP wrote:   
   >> A recent discussion came up in another froup to which I subscribe where I   
   >> had related something I'd been told while in the USAF about the reason the   
   >> American Salute was different from the British and some other salutes.   
   >>   
   >> I was told, and it's been over 25 years, so I can't remember by whom, that   
   >> the reason the American salute is with the outside of the hand angled down   
   >> is because America has "never lost a war."  Correspondingly, the British   
   >> salute is with the outside of the hand angled up, as they have lost at least   
   >> one war.   
   >>   
   >> Another veteran in a different branch stated he'd been told the same story,   
   >> but questioned its authenticity.   
   >>   
   >> I cannot seem to find the magic keywords on google to turn up anything that   
   >> even remotely covers this topic.  Most sites cannot even agree on the origin   
   >> of the salute itself, but none that I have read to-date cover the difference   
   >> in the angle of the hand.   
   >>   
   >> Has anyone else, veteran or civilian, heard this story of the reason for the   
   >> differences in the salutes?  Can anyone find some better keywords with which   
   >> to search?   
   >>   
   >>   
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   >So the Americans won the Vietnam war?   
      
   Possibly undecided at the time the original poster was talking about.   
   As you apparently failed to notice, you are replying to a post made in 2003.   
   In it, the poster mentioned having been told about this "over 25 years ago".   
   If that had been 28 or more years, the Vietnam War would not have ended.   
      
      
   John "Still grumpy after all these years" Francis   
      
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