A twenty-one gun salute for the President and heads of state, Washington's Birthday, and the Fourth of July became the standard in the United States Navy with the issuance of new regulations on 24 ...

according to the U.S. Navy. In 1875, the United States formally adopted the 21-gun salute, the same number used by Britain, France and other nations. Presidential and state funerals Holidays such ...

A 21-gun salute recently took place in honor of Kenneth Gorbey, a U.S. Navy veteran, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Amherst. Gorbey served in the Navy from 1957 until 1963. “He was the ...