Who Doesn't Love a Parade?

Above: Fife and Drum Corps. Continental Army, Washington, D.C. 14 June 2025 (live Fox TV)
ARMY 250 PARADE, Washington, D.C.

I love military parades. They are a very important reminder to the citizenry that our liberty does not come without periodic bloodshed and sacrifice. Today's parade in Washington, D. C. is a moving tribute to the US Army, an organization to which all Americans are greatly indebted. Organizations doing the fighting, protecting our liberty, deserve recognition and what better way to accomplish this than putting on a parade showcasing the troops and the equipment. Parades honoring the nations fighters are a long-standing tradition in countries around the world. Thank you, President Trump, for reviving this long standing, but since lost, tradition. I wish I could be in DC in person for today's parade.

I have attended other military parades in person... just not US military parades.

Above: Charles De Gaulle, Bastille Day, 24 July 1965, 14 July - Paris, France - 1965.

I was present, standing near the Palais de Chaillot, overlooking the Champs Elysee, at the Bastille Day military parade in Paris in 1965. I I saw General Charles de Gaulle ride by, from my left to my right, just as shown in the image, in an open convertible gripping a stationary bar in front for stability. The image is a file image, but it is exactly what I saw. Somewhere, buried in my own records, I have my own image of this scene.

Above: Camel Corps, Indian Army, Republic Day, 26 January 2017. New Delhi, India (Samsung phone image taken by Mwah [sic]).
I attended India's Republic Day military parade in New Delhi in 2015.

It pains me that many Americans today, some true subversives and the rest useful idiots, will not see the Army 250 Parade as they chose to attend often violent demonstrations orchestrated by internal forces that seek to undermine the bedrock principles that have given rise to, unprecedented in all world history, two hundred fifty years of liberty.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" is a powerful expression of the idea that sometimes-difficult sacrifices are necessary to maintain freedom." Thomas Jefferson

"Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance." Robert Breault

"Who doesn't love a parade?" The Bishop