Someone asked him how “knuckling [one’s] forehead” was done.
He described it as a way of touching your cap, as it were, same with “tugging [one’s] forelocks”—the way he lifted his head to demonstrate both movements, thumb down and palm slightly down and out, a person’s knuckles do naturally touch the forehead. “It’s how you greet(ed) a superior in military.”
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