Growing up in the Elevator Company

Posted by beranter on March 25th, 2016

Emily Post, in 1922, says “Passenger Elevator is not necessary to add that every American male citizen stands with his hat off at the passing of the ‘colors’ and when the national anthem is played. If he didn’t, some other more loyal citizen would take it off for him.”

 It would seem to me that this act of forcing someone to remove their hat would actually disrespect the flag and what it stands for with the more “loyal citizen” she describes, actually more or less spitting on what the flag and the anthem represent.

On that note, I think one soldier’s comments I read recently said it best when he said the following: “I always thought showing true respect for the flag and song itself was in having the right to choose whether to keep my hat on or off.”

Growing up in the Elevator Company, Coubertin valued a classical education. He loved sports, especially rugby, but there is little evidence he was particularly athletic himself. As his career as an educator gained steam, he pressed for more physical education in schools.