Reply #27: Veterans and active military not in uniform now have the right to render a military salute.

[Lasher]

The Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 modified Title 4 of the U.S. Code to allow veterans and military service members not in uniform to render the military salute during hoisting, lowering, or passing of the flag. The National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2009, signed into law on October 14, 2008, included a provision to allow veterans and military members out of uniform to salute the flag during playing of the National Anthem.

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