honor guards
Formal military escorts
Honor guards are ceremonial military or quasi-military units that perform duties at formal occasions—funerals, state visits, monuments, or official ceremonies.
They carry flags, escort dignitaries, stand vigil at tombs, and execute precise drill movements.
The term applies both to the unit and to its individual members: The honor guard folded the flag and presented it to the widow.
- military honorsAwards for armed service
- saluteGestural sign of honor
- standing at attentionFormal upright military stance
- eternal flameContinuously burning memorial light
- cenotaphsMonuments for unrecovered dead
21-gun salute · rifle salute · parade · sentinels · tomb of the unknown soldier · taps · guards · ceremony · duty · uniform · color guards · precision drill · tribute · wreath laying · lying in state · bagpipes · vigilance · fallen soldiers
- guards and soldiersbodyguards, sentries, watchmen, sentinels, gatekeepers
- state ceremoniesnational anthems, flag ceremonies, parades, state funerals, inaugurations
- diplomatic eventsstate dinners, state banquets, state ceremonies, state visits, receiving lines
- elite guardsroyal guards, imperial guards, ceremonial guards, bodyguards, Beefeaters
- honor guardsroyal guards, sentinel, sentinels, sentry, Beefeater
- military bandsmarching bands, marching band, brass bands, pipe bands, drum corps
honor guardsinfantry
Ground combat troops
combat units · shock troops · guerrilla fighters · mercenaries · combat troops
honor guardsdesecrators
Those who profane sanctity
grave robbers · protesters · hecklers · vandals · rioters
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