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Originally posted by alum
Ma'am and Sir are just signs of deference to elders, military or not.
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That's true, but it doesn't happen all that often in the rest of the world these days.
Some of those kids would salute a lamp post and call it "Sir."
(Although after being in Civil Air Patrol in High School, the first time I snapped off a salute to a cadet officer as a freshman ROTC student passing on the street on a drill day, he looked at me like I was nuts. Pretty different than the academies)