On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:16:30 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

On Dec 10, 1:38*am, Hawke wrote:

That's what opinions are all about. Everyone has their own and that's
fine by me. But I was just wondering how many times you have personally
seen a president award a medal of honor award. I'm probably as old as
you and I can't remember ever seeing it. So I'm wondering how you know
about that "tradition". There are not many medal of honor winners at all
and most of them were killed in action. So how many times have you seen
the president hand one out? And which president?

Hawke

I think I am a lot older than you, but I have never personally seen a
president, much less a president awarding a Metal of Honor. I did see
Jimmy Carter once, but that was when he was running for governor of
Georgia.

I do not know if there is a tradition of the President saluting a
Metal of Honor recipient. From an earlier post...............

First you do not seem to be able to grasp that Obama is human and can
do anything wrong. If it is tradition to salute those that receive
the Metal of Honor, then Obama should have done it.

From a later post

If it was a tradition, Obama ought to have done it. Obviously not a
big thing to you, but also obvious it is a big thing to some of those
that were in the military.

And from the latest post in response to your statement "As such he's
more
concerned with other things than being a member of the military and
following the proper etiquette the military uses."

And my opinion is that the President should have followed the
tradition.

I never said there was a tradition, only that Obama should have
followed whatever tradition there is. You had previously made the
argument that the President did not have to follow tradition. And
while I agree that he does not have to, I believe he should.

I leave it to you to determine if there is a tradition of the
President saluting a recipient of the Metal of Honor immediately after
presenting the metal.

Dan
I suppose that the real question is whether there is a regulation that
the recipient of a Medal of Honor is entitled to a salute, and which
regulation actually requires it?

A cursory search of the UCMJ certainly indicates that there is no
requirement, however a search of federal regulations might show
something different.

Cheers,

John D. Slocomb
(jdslocombatgmail)