Chris(WA)"s website thing explains this whole Tomb Guard thing ("The Old Guard", 3rd Inf. Reg) with more accuracy. Nancy"s article has been sent everywhere for years now and it"s gotten out of hand with it"s "rules" and fallacies.
I was in the "Old Guard" (3rd Infantry Regiment) and was involved in a lot of funerals in Arlington Nat"l Cemetery and airport arrivals (for foreign dignataries) back in the early 1960s. There is nothing more meaningful than a military funeral, for the relatives and for the soldiers, no matter how many of them we conducted.
Tomb Guards are held to a very high standard, but as for no swearing or drinking for the rest of your life....well, the Army has a few more important things to do than follow you around forever to make sure you comply. We all stood before full length mirrors before any ceremony, wore the shoes with heel clips, had double soles, everything had to be perfect all the time, etc. It was a very strict world, but the stress was nothing compared to what our soldiers are going thru today and others who have seen combat.
I was in Arlington when Hurricane Isabell visited during our annual Old Guard reunion. I"m from the midwest and I"ve seen harder blows than that during a big storm than what Isabell had left over by the time she got to Wash.D C. Some trees got blown down and lots of branches and leaves everywhere, shutting down the metro area for a day so the Gov"t workers could have a paid day off. In the rest of the country that wouldn"t have stopped anything for more than a couple hrs.
I am very proud to have been selected to serve at Ft. Myer. But I am also extremely proud of our young men and women who serve today in very dangerous places.
I do, however, fondly remember all the girls what worked at the Pentagon. Ft. Myer with lots of single men, and nearby apartments full of those Pentagon girls....sure made for some interesting times! And the combat we nearly had some times with those Marines and sailors at those apartment parties was also interesting. LA in WI
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