In the early 1990s, when I was stationed in Italy, it was very common to see soldiers riding bicycles back and forth to work. So it came as no big surprise that, after a series of painfully comic accidents, a new policy was announced, saying in summary, “Soldiers shall no longer salute officers who are engaged in the riding of a bicycle.”
20世紀(jì)90年代初期,當(dāng)我們?cè)谝獯罄v軍的時(shí)候,士兵們騎自行車上下班是很普遍的事。經(jīng)歷了一系列痛苦而又戲劇性的事故以后,順理成章地出臺(tái)一項(xiàng)新規(guī)定,簡(jiǎn)而言之:“騎自行車的官兵們不必再互相致禮。”