Posted on 06/14/2025 9:23:10 AM PDT by nuconvert
I just read a poll that said 51% of Veterans are not in favor.
What are people here feeling?
I know it's expensive, but it's not like it happens every year.
There seem to be a lot of people bothered by the optics. Doesn't bother me. I hope it comes off without a major incident. I'll be watching on tv. :~)
I grew up going to military parades several times a year. I’m all for it. 250 years of US Military.
Hell yeah!
Yeah, it’s so crowded nobody goes anymore.
The Army HAS a Birthday and I will join Army in celebrating it!
We CAN afford an Army Day.
People should appreciate their military members... And they’ve been around for 250 years, so celebratory parades are a must.
Every year in the UK they have a trooping of the colours... OR colors if you’re American. Today is that day and it’s a spectacle that everybody anticipates and enjoys. People who don’t appreciate and celebrate the military, should consider that without them they would not enjoy the freedoms they have.
You said it, Yogi!
I am totally against this Army parade! I was in the U. S. NAVY! ;-)
“..How many countries, dedicated to the ideal that all men are created equal and are entitled to life liberty in the pursuit of happiness, have lasted 250 years?
I say go for it… and show the leftist bastards here and all around the world what it looks like when free people tell them to GF themselves....”
^THIS^!!!!
The liberals oppose it because it’s Trump who wanted this parade.
If a good Democrat president wanted such a parade, then the liberals would be okay with it.
But because it’s Trump, that’s why they feel the need to oppose it.
Retired Army. I don’t mind the parades. What I hate is the practices.
“I grew up going to parades every summer.”
Same here. My earliest memory of going to a parade was around 1956 when I was five years old. We always went to the “Decoration Day” / “Memorial Day” parade in upstate NY. We sat on Dad’s old, scratchy, olive drab Marine Corps blanket. (”Decoration Day” was officially renamed “Memorial Day” in 1967). I remember lots of tanks, military vehicles and armed forces units marching down the road. Great memories! It was just ten years after the end of WW II and the war was still fresh in the memories of anybody older than 15 years.
Later on, I went to the huge Independence Day parade in Redwood City, CA. It is supposed to be the biggest west of the Mississippi River. And we had small parades in our little town, the best are the “Pet Parade” in April and the Christmas Parade just after Thanksgiving. We always took our kids to those events.
Thank you, sir
Dems hate it so how bad can it be?
October will be our turn! Lol
I think the celebration, thus positive recognition, of our military with a national and international display of our patriotism is a wonderful thing to have at this time. They were quick to post the, what appeared to be, army staff sergeant talking about disobeying orders because she, in her limited knowledge of what the orders are and why they were given, decided they were unlawful. (She will be handled) This is what the world is seeing with a positive support and idealized to an extreme degree that we are not a rogue nation of turbulent behavior, But we are a democratic nation believers in our freedoms and philanthropy toward nations that wish to work with us for a betterment of man.
“I just read a poll that said 51% of Veterans are not in favor.”
What poll and of who? I could have run a poll with antiwar people who had problems with their military career of 10 people and if only six of them said they were against it I could have said 9% more. If you are going to say you read a poll, identify it or you didn’t say anything that can be positively the truth. I was involved with military people while working for the department of the army, and I would not guess that I could find 51 people out of 100 that would not think this is fantastic for the army. Let alone disagree with it. Give me a source, please or it means nothing.
wy69
We ALL do.
NFHAle nailed it!
This ain’t no time to be shy.
Agreed.
And they will do everything they can to spoil it with protests and vulgar acts. So YES definitely have the parades, on behalf of all the armed forces, to not only celebrate the occasion but remind citizens that order still rightly rules over chaos and anarchy.
But let's not make it an annual event after too many dictatorships have run it into the ground as a show of force and oppression.
Yes, Navy day is on my BIRTHDAY, too! ;-)
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