I thought this parade was going to be on veterans day. If so, this would mark the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, a pretty significant event that deserves to be commemorated. I like the idea of a parade. As a retired Marine I had the opportunity to march in many parades, some I liked, some I didn't.
I think my favorite one was when we pulled into port in Hokaido Japan and we were the first American military there for a long time, since probably WWII. They lined us up and had an impromptu parade as we marched to our base camp. The streets were lined with cheering Japanese waving Japanese and American flags. It was an awesome site.
Attached is a picture of 4th Marines in Shanghai marching down (I'm guessing) Bubbling Well Road which is a weekly parade they conducted when they weren't protecting the American sector against the Japanese. They say that was one of the best duties ever in the Marine Corps. What I would give to have been a China Marine marching in those weekly parades.
Seems we already have a traditional National Veteran’s Day Parade.
http://nationalveteransday.org/
In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day. Armistice Day was set aside to honor veterans of World War I. But after World War II required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen in the nation’s history, a World War II veteran from Birmingham named Raymond Weeks had an idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans. In 1947 he led a delegation to Washington, D.C. to urge then-Army Chief of Staff General Dwight Eisenhower to create a national holiday that honored all veterans. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed legislation establishing November 11th as Veterans Day. President Reagan honored Weeks as the driving force for the national holiday with the Presidential Citizenship Medal in 1982 at the White House. Weeks led the first National Veterans Day Parade in 1947 in Alabama, and he continued the tradition until his passing in 1985.