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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
And really, this was my point in the entire argument. If it isn't a puposefully submissive statement for any of the others, then it is just courtesy. Clumsy courtesy, perhaps, but courtesy none the less.
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Well again that's why Bush's picture doesn't belong with the others.
He's bending over for purely utilitarian reasons. That head bowing thing might be required to get a knighthood but not to receive the MoH or Olympic medals.
Nothing that i've ever heard or read mandates that they bow to receive their award. They have to bend over
only so the medal can be hung on them. If they were, say, 4 feet tall and the person hanging the medal was 6 feet tall then they'd still get their medal even if they kept their heads up straight.