"shiver" wrote in message
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Beverly Carmichael wrote:

It is appropriate to refer to him as Brigadier General Olds. Not 'Mr'
Olds.

Well Bev.... We have all met people like that.

Pompous people who even when retired insist that every one from
children to their parents address them by their title.

Oh, please. You'd have to climb up on your mother's shoulders just to kiss
Gen. Olds' ass.