"So, who else .........." Topic

………watched the fantastic parade yesterday?

I wish I could have been present as it appeared, on RSBN, to have been a great event. I loved the final event with the Oath of Enlistment administered by President Trump. Fantastic! And those recruits will hold that memory for the rest of their lives.

And lest I forget, Happy Belated Birthday Mr. President! Now, that was a Birthday Party!!

Very wonderful parade yesterday and well worth watching.

No. I missed it.

TBH, yesterday I spent painting the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, 2nd Continental Light Dragoons and 27th Foot Inniskillngs. I'm a "If it's Saturday, I'm painting black!" artist.
Then at night we played a Stalingrad miniatures game that was basically preparing the city for Urban Renewal. Very nice terrain that reminded me of Washington Street in Scranton.

So that's what I did on June 14.

Supposed to be the Army, after all its their 250th birthday, through the years but somehow missed the early troops I heard would be represented. Picked it up at Korea era. Some time will see if can find it on YouTube.

My dad btw gets a parade down Broad street on his birthday as a celebration every year.

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Full parade

It was an inspiring sight!

No… I'm in Canada waiting to see the real thing when the US army invades across the border.

On to Greenland… Cant let those plans be wasted

That's the spirit, glengarry!

I wasn't the least bit interested.

Glengarry6, we've already invaded in 1775, 1812, 1813 and 1814 and our Fenian proxies three times after the ACW. If that's not enough, you'll just have to wait your turn. Plenty of countries out there we haven't invaded even once yet.

Anyway, you've only invaded us twice, not counting Cape May in tourist season, so it's your turn to do the logistics.

As a regular player of the Continental Army in our AWI/American Revolution games, I appreciate the US military, but where is George Washington when you need him?

I watched parts of it. It was fine.

The news was wall to wall No Kings coverage so it probably is hard to find replays

Would have taped it if I'd known it was on. :-(

From what I've seen on news clips (and read in other discussions), the only criticism I have is that many of the units weren't marching in step (within the unit.) They needed a lot more parade ground practice (and/or a sergeant yelling at them.) I've seen footage from Victory at Sea of US troops marching in parade formation (now that was impressive. 'Guadalcanal' episode, near the end.)
Hopefully by the next parade they'll have improved… ;-)

The irony!

They played CCR's 'Fortunate Son'. John Fogerty must have been laughing his socks off.

Yes the wife and I watched it. Inspiring for sure.

Fogerty finally retrieved the rights to his early music in 2023. Good for him.
Just like Taylor Swift finally getting her early rights back.

"Taped it." Is that even a thing now?

"They played CCR's 'Fortunate Son'. John Fogerty must have been laughing his socks off."

Old American tradition. I knew of a Cav unit which played "Please Mr. Custer" regularly. Anyone else remember the scene in "High Road to China" where the WWI ace and the guy waging his own war in Warlord China are singing "I didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier?" My mother--father, brother, husband and three sons in uniform--used to sing "I don't want to march in the infantry, ride in the cavalry, shoot in artillery, fly over Germany. I want to be friendly. Hi!"

Not quite "I'm in the Lord's Army." I'm pretty sure it was the Communist/America First version.

(We'll draw a discrete veil over an OCS platoon doing circle drills while singing "Cover of the Rolling Stone." It was the end of a long day, and all the perpetrators should be retired by now.)

I'm in Canada waiting to see the real thing when the US army invades across the border…

It would be faster to emigrate.

there is a surprising amount of emigration from Canada to the USA and USA to Canada, rather than win elections many just are moving..

Well if you weren't happy with the parade, neither was IIhan Omar, so you have good company. 😉 I'm sure her Brother-Husband wasn't happy either. If we are becoming one of the "worst countries in the world", I'm sure Somalia would welcome them both back. I'm sure they have a burqa ready for her as we speak.

Or maybe she will become a pirate 🏴‍☠️

"Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said last week that the United States is becoming one of the "worst countries" in the world.

"I mean, I grew up in a dictatorship and I don't even remember ever witnessing anything like that to have a democracy, a beacon of hope for the world to now be turned into one of the, you know, one of the worst countries, where the military are in our streets without any regard for people's constitutional rights," Omar said in an interview published Friday on Democracy Now!'s YouTube page.

Omar, who was born in Somalia, referenced President Donald Trump's military parade on Saturday that commemorated the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army."

If she decides to be a 🏴‍☠️ she'll need a song.

Subject: Song ♪ SOMALIAN PIRATES ♪


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"there is a surprising amount of emigration from Canada to the USA and USA to Canada"

True for a very long time, Mildbill, as any Nova Scotian could tell you. And as they were settling in, a couple of Canadian regiments and their families were building a town in upstate New York. The British were seriously concerned in the War of 1812, because so many of the settlers on the Niagara frontier were recent immigrants from America.

William Faulkner and James Warner Bellah both became, if you will, "wartime Canadians" and attended flight school there prior to our entry in WWI. And one of the reasons the US never did much about the flight of draft dodgers to Canada during the Vietnam War was that they were outnumbered by Canadians coming south to enlist.

Shall I mention David Brooks, Malcolm Gladwell and William Shatner? How about Leslie Nielson?

I read a piece by a Canadian once observing that America's founding documents promised "the blessings of liberty" while Canada's (he summarized) promised "good government and plenty of it." Both have merit, and I think the flow of citizens back and forth has benefited both countries. Certainly it beats going to war over lost elections.

I watched and so did some of my Vet friends. It was the US Army's 250th Birthday, thought it was pretty good.

If you didn't like it … there are daily "peaceful protests" you could watch.