Here is JFK's Inauguration.
Posted on 06/14/2025 12:33:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
While the idea might be novel for many Americans, military parades are common spectacles in many parts of the world.
President Donald Trump is set to realize on Saturday, as he turns 79, one of his long-standing ambitions: to host a major military parade in Washington.
While the idea might be novel for many Americans, military parades are common spectacles in many parts of the world. Trump was so taken by France’s Bastille Day ceremonies in 2017 that he vowed to match or top them. “It was one of the greatest parades I’ve ever seen,” Trump told reporters of the French festivities.
Under authoritarian regimes and strong democracies, as part of centuries-old traditions or to celebrate new victories, uniformed soldiers, horses, tanks and even missiles roll down thoroughfares in displays of might bound up in power projection and national identity. Earlier Saturday, the British royal family attended the Trooping the Colour parade, a celebration of the king’s birthday that ended this year with a flyover by the Royal Air Force aerobatic team, also known as the Red Arrows.
“Americans aren’t used to seeing these kinds of parades,” said David Kieran, historian of war and society in contemporary U.S. culture at Columbus State University in Georgia.
Ceremonial military reviews and parades celebrated wartime victories when the United States was a young republic through World War I, but the U.S. doesn’t have a modern tradition of public military parades.
Since the end of World War II, the United States has put on only one major military parade: The National Victory Celebration in Washington after the 1991 Gulf War, under President George H.W. Bush. Troops marched and tanks rolled down Constitution Avenue.
Celebrations for the war lasted longer than the war itself, said David Fitzgerald, historian...
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Any photos of the parade would be greatly appreciated!
Has it happened yet?
Or a video replay of it.
The Navy and Air Force get celebrations every year where they get to show off their toys but the Army, the largest and oldest branch of the service should not?
I’m 80....We’ve had them in my hometown since I was a little girl....a big city... I always took my children, too.
Can someone explain to me just what is wrong with the Army getting a parade on their 250 birthday?
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Somehow the comparison is made to the annual parades in Communist countries; somehow it costs too much. And so on.
America haters, what can you do about them?
the parade should’ve happen in LA, so after the parade they can go ahead and roll those tanks into the rioters.
Here is JFK's Inauguration.
It’s a problem because of one person:
President Trump
The TDS is overflowing today..
The Air Force does Fly Overs and Air Shows all the time.
There probably will be celebrations for the Space Force in a few years.
But Heavens to Murgatroyd, let's not do anything honor the Army on their 250 birthday!
They are only the largest branch of the service.
I find it puzzling and annoying.
Nobody, anywhere, has anything on the NORKs, or CHICOMs when it comes to military parades.
That’s pretty cool.
It reminds people that we have to fight to keep our nation, a message that also applies to cultural survival and fighting for our national identity.
Lots of stuff like team crossfit competitions and info for families to give it very much the feel of a recruitment event.
I have seen a video of the 101st ABN marching down New Yorks 5th ave after the end of WWII with Gen Jim Gavin leading the parade. Fantastic precision marching. I am not sure how to put it on Free Republic but It is on youtube. My Dad was in the parade and my mom was going to take the train from Hartford to see him but the train broke down on the way and she missed the it.
President Trump
The TDS is overflowing today..
They are out protesting. But they are stuck in their own echo chamber.
The problem with Leftists is that everyone in their "social circle" is a Leftist.
They do not know a person who is MAGA. Even if their friend is MAGA, it's likely that he's in the closet due to the cancel culture.
If Obama had the parade, the media would be having Gorbasms.( That's an old Rush Limbaugh reference- pointing out how the press used to love the late Communist dictator, Mikhail Gorbachev.)
This must be the one you mean.
82nd Airborne Victory Parade NYC in 1946-—3:25
https://youtu.be/s90og73p2fo?si=JrPaem1edIuk6SAd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Victory_Parade_of_1946
“The parade was led by 13,000 men of the 82nd Airborne Division (including the African-American 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion under General James M. Gavin. The 82nd was chosen as the All-American Division to represent the U.S. Army and the end of World War II. The parade also included Sherman tanks and other armored vehicles, such as self-propelled howitzers, and a fly-by of a formation of glider-towing C-47s. The 82nd also participated in the September Berlin Victory Parade of 1945.
In preparation for the New York parade, the division mustered and trained three times a day since late 1945, after having finished their garrison duty in Berlin. The division arrived in United States on January 3 aboard the RMS Queen Mary, and continued training for the parade at Camp Shanks.
The parade, beginning at Washington Square, marching up Fifth Avenue, was reported to be four miles long.”
Here are more videos on that parade.
https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=82nd+Airborne+Victory+Parade+NYC+in+1946
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