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The three-volley salute is a ceremonial act performed at military funerals and sometimes also police funerals. The custom likely originates with Roman funeral rites. Dirt would be cast on the body three times followed, and the ceremony was ended by the deceased's name being called three times.
For funerals of general officers and flag officers of O-10 (four-star rank), a 17-gun salute is fired; O-9 (three-star rank), a 15-gun salute is fired; O-8 (two-star rank), a 13-gun salute is fired; O-7 (one-star rank), an 11-gun salute is fired. A military band and an escort platoon participate (size varies according to the rank of the deceased).
Different styles of military or political salutes. ... Gun salute; 1968 Olympics Black Power salute ... Three-finger salute (pro-democracy)
A 21-gun salute differs from the three-volley salute typically seen at military funerals. That practice stems from a 17th-century European cease-fire tradition. After both sides of a battle had ...
The keen of bagpipes, a three-volley gun salute and a bugle sounding taps pierced the air of a small Pennsylvania town on Friday as hundreds gathered to honor an ex-fire chief who was shot and ...
A 21-gun salute is the most commonly recognized of the customary gun salutes that are performed by the firing of cannons or artillery as a military honor. As naval customs evolved, 21 guns came to be fired for heads of state, or in exceptional circumstances for heads of government, with the number decreasing with the rank of the recipient of ...
English: the 191st Army Band performs three "Ruffles and Flourishes" and "General's March" while divisional salute artillery fire a gun salute as Gen. Robert Cone arrives to take command of Fort Hood, Texas in 2009
A feu de joie (literally "fire of joy" in French) is a form of formal celebratory gunfire consisting of a celebratory rifle salute, described as a "running fire of guns." As soldiers fire into the air sequentially in rapid succession, the cascade of blank rounds produces a characteristic "rat-tat-tat" effect.