In the hearts and minds of those, of whence, traditions of Customs and Courtesies bear true allegiance of men and women in all forms of military. Nor was it just respectful, tactful, and traditional but it is and always will be a true demonstration of superior judgment. Succumbed with today’s mentality and warped with the frailty of realism, customs and courtesies factors a tradition in not just towards humans in a broad spectrum, dwindled down to our and all militaries across the globe.
Let us journey down to the fonder days of customs and courtesies played a much more relevant and strong sense of war and valor. Such days originated with the delayed times of Roman rule. Historians, from their recollections and history readings, bring us word of their ways of customs and courtesies. A prime and respectful point would be the hand salute with its naivety of its purpose. Citizens upon entering any township that was not their homeland, would often be spoken to by the guards at their posts. Many of times, during the hardship of tyrant rules of emperors, many people from all points of the continent, would seek to have their tyrant or others, assassinated. Guards at every entrance, sewer porthole, and major exits, would ask for the forearms and hands of entering guests from a distance, to show good faith and no dark agenda to harm anyone or their emperor. Each forearm would be raised alone and slowly with their palms facing the ground. Such an inspection would occur since many guards, upon inspection and search, would be harmed or even killed at close range. Tactfully and proficiently, guards were instructed to search all incoming people, foreign and domestic, from a small standoff vantage point and instructed that a search of weapons and all poisons would be confiscated and those found with such contraband, would be arrested and interrogated. Sculpting through the ages past the Romans, we move to knights of England and all across Europe in the Era of 1820,...