When top generals retired their commissions a year ago, they removed their uniforms, but one adviser told me that they still salute one another in private.
The program has never been popular -- the cadets draw more taunts than compliments when they wear their dress blues and snap-salute one another in the halls.
As one speaker followed another, as Ralph Bunche, who had marched for two full days, and A. Philip Randolph spoke, the civil-rights leaders saluted one another and gave signs of patching up their differences.
"One country, under one constitution, saluting one American flag … always saluting," he added.
I think of it as a modern mogul saluting one of the great figures from the past.
Anyone with any knowledge of dance history, or interest in it, is going to read this book saluting one aspect of it, arguing with the next, qualifying something else.
"We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag," he said Monday at a speech to the National Guard Association in Baltimore.
"It's time to salute one of the greatest sports teams ever, and a good bunch of blokes too.
And toward the end of the night, D. Randall Blythe, the lead screamer for Lamb of God, found time to salute one of the opening acts.
Now I do, and as well as being massively knowledgeable about this former One Show presenter who suffered a career wobble thanks to "sex texts", I feel obliged to salute one quality almost unique among celebrity memoirists.
