I am saluted at least once a day there.
There are security men in the doorways of nearly every business there and, when I walk by, I am saluted as a matter of course.
Tonight, as PEN honors other journalists living and dead, I will be saluting Ammar, too.
On Wednesday, I'll be saluting her as a woman: a woman who had to prove her dominance over the men in her party only to be used by them, then discarded; a woman who still draws the fire and the ire away from the hundreds in parliament who stood behind her policies, and the millions among the population who voted for her.
Whenever I pick up an English edition of an epic Chinese novel, the first thing I feel like doing is saluting its hard-headed translator.
Later, when asked what prompted the attempted embrace, Mr. Charney replied, "I was just saluting my opponent".
Following an exchange between the managers at full-time, Caixinha explained: "I was just saluting him and saying I didn't understand the reason why he invited me to be received in his office and didn't show up at the previous match.
I raised my left hand to my forehead, saw the soldier in front of me salute with his right, and wondered if I, as a reporter, should be saluting at all.
My son is saluting as I write this.
"I'm like, 'Yeah whatever, we're saluting like that' / When the sun's going down, we'll be raising my cup / Singing here's to never growing up".
