if you wrote that, well put.

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But it lacked pop, or sizzle. It was dull and boring. I liked the music but it was not military parade.

But the Argonne is a forest where we lost many men in WWI. The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was incredibly bloody. So, on the off chance he was talking about the First World War, he would have actually been correct.

It's more likely he was talking about the Battle of the Bulge in WWII, and just screwed up.

Is that 2/3 of those guys will be dead within seven years.

They fucked around with the antifascist world, and found out.

Would have been more people for 250th birthday of the US Army but POS Trump made the celebration about himself.

WhenI was in the Air Force these were despised. You get to waste a ton of time prepping a uniform that was never otherwise worn; waste a ton of time practicing; waste a ton of time doing stuff other than your actual job.

Then you hate a ton of time standing around waiting for the parade to start, march, fall out, and head back to your base to put everything away and try to catch up on work that didn't get downe because you were on parade duty.

Waste of time and money, all around.

If I did that in boot camp, I'd still be there, 50 years later. (54, actually)

Heart not in it and the dumb shits in the stands couldn't tell a march from a waltz step.

parades suck.

I'm not sure where the "Fortunate Son" music came from, but that says it all.

Whoever planned this all most likely justified the lack of martial band music and the slipshod marching as somehow taking the threatening authoritarian edge off the proceedings. And that worked. It also detracted from the highly regimented tribute to himself that Bonespurs Krasnov had imagined.

It is a bit of a shame that the Army was cheated out of a celebration of its 250th Anniversary. I'm sure the soldiers directly involved might have preferred a means of celebration other than "Parade Duty" and if good ole American ingenuity is still what I hope it is, I imagine they managed their own celebrations.

It's an absolute shame that the Army was cheated out of a celebration of its 250th Anniversary!

I hope that they made up for it later. They we definitely hijacked.

Now, We The People, have an entire year to plan how to keep this low life, President Psychopath, from hijacking our entire republic.



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While at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles in April, they displayed an actual Politbureau car. I had to photograph it.

We can't help it.
In this perade I was happy to see the silent protests.
Soldiers slouching, a little out of line and step. Some were even seen waving from their tanks.
Good job and Happy Birthday.

From what I have read it appears that it was the complete waste of time and money that I and others expected.

50-50 that he'll be complaining tomorrow about the lack of goose stepping

it seems that the Army on purpose made the whole thing as abjectly unmilitaristic as possible -- in fact, it was downright pedantic, tedious, boring, even non-threatening. (Bravo, Army !)

In fact, pulling together artistic or governmental talent just isn’t something they can do at all (Hello Kid Rock. Hello Whiskey Pete) considering that their only criterion for hiring is loyalty to Dear Leader.

To me the faces of the soldiers did not show much enthusiasm for the parade. They looked tired. They had just fought a war and just wanted to get this last duty over with and go home.

It started like this:

"Here I sit,
All broken-hearted..."