No matter how much I might like it, whenever I see someone in a military movie or show do an improper hand salute it's like nails on a chalkboard. There's plenty of other military stuff they do wrong, but since a salute goes right up to an actor's face it's the most noticeable. I did two years in JROTC and then went to military school for my last two years of high school, and they made damn sure to beat exactly how to do a hand salute into your brain. There is only one right way to do it, and every aspect, from the way you bring your hand up, to the way you hold your fingers, to the way you're supposed to tilt your hand, to who exactly you're supposed to salute and when, is exact and choreographed, and if you do it wrong they will be sure to let your know. So there is no possible way that some guy in a war movie will not know how to properly to do, and whenever it's done wrong, and it's always, always, always, done wrong, it just takes me out of the movie/show for a few seconds and reminds me these are just actors who wouldn't know a properly bloused boot from their elbow.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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