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Today, flags are at half mast — including Ronnie’s, in this undated publicity photo — and America is mourning as we say a fond farewell to America’s First Lady, actress Jane Wyman. Ms. Wyman was one of the wives of our greatest president, Ronald Reagan, before he replaced her with Nancy “Reagan” Davis. MORE »

The pointing and the thumbs-up and all the usual crazy-man hand gestures Rumsfeld performs whenever he drops in on Iraq?

Deeply offensive and vulgar displays, no different from flipping the bird or “the shocker.”

That’s what U.S. troops are now learning before they’re sent to Iraq, the Marine Corps Times reveals this week. Dirty details are after the jump.

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