Salutes.

France's flag

This felt necessary

I have waited a long time to use this picture.

Canadian military salute

german military salute

The first military salute was when knights lifted their visors in front of the king.
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In other news a man in Italy has recently sneezed. The French have begun surrender negotiations.

OP's salute.

**bogglecrunch rolls 98**

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

what the shortest book ever written?

The French war heroes

russian military salute

......and that's how i lost to the British

This is what I thought when I saw the french...

In medieval times, when a knight spoke to a commander, he raised his visor. Thus, the gesture of saluting was born.