Hello, my name is Matt Whitman. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast. This is episode

something to something on the book of John. We're in John chapter one. And if you're brand new to this

podcast, well, sometimes we just talk about things for a second before we start talking about the

Bible thing, but usually they relate. Today is such a day.

Welcome, by the way.

For a long time, I thought I understood the origin story of military salutes, but now I realize I don't.

I had been told that the military salute, and I'm picturing the one where an inferior

officer is showing respect to a superior officer,

and they make sort of a real flat, like knife hand kind of thing.

They bend their elbow, and they touch the, you know,

like their side of their forefinger to their forehead or their brow

or the tip of the cap or something like that, that kind of a salute.

I thought I knew where that came from. I had heard for the longest time that that was descended from the middle ages and

knights with their visors on their armor, and they'd see another night, and they'd be like,

I better show that knight who I am, so we don't start just lancing each other. So he raised up their

visor and be like, there's no need for

us to lance each other. Behold, I am sir so and so. And the other night would lift up his visor and be

like, behold, I am sir so and so. And they would reckon each other. And it was a sign of mutual respect

and a warrior context and they would just move on. Everything's cool. And then I had been told that that just gradually morphed into a gesture that has basically

the same meaning, like respect to appear or a superior or deference in a warrior context,

and that that's where you got the modern salute.

But it turns out that might be hogwash, Hocum, if you will.

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