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What is the history of a 21-gun salute at funerals?

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Not a mortuary practice- like Taps or firing three rounds blank. The 2l Gun salute is for the President of the United States. origin of number of rounds is obscure but may have some connection with the old voting age of 2l years. Then again 2l is three times 7, and thus three times the age of reason. It was the year of majority or adulthood in the Middle Ages. only Men 2l and over could be Knighted ( squires and pages could be younger) and so it goes. except for an ex-President, it is not a funerary custom. half-way up,. indeed.

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