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Yawn. Looked like the US military was giving private bone spur a 45 million dolla history lesson in DC. What a tool.
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I was taught that growing up that it was wrong for civilians to salute uniformed soldiers and all military ranks. Maybe I was misinformed, but it came from relatives active serving as well as retired from service. This administration does it like kids in a game. Seems at least ironic to the point of being hypocritical, even offensive. Got this emphatic instruction at an early age. Just don't find those saluting our heroes honorable or worthy of the gesture. Anybody know?
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Those of us civilians who work for the military were instructed not to salute when we were hired. If you’re part of the chain of command you can salute, like SecDef and POTUS. Any other civilians should not.
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Maybe they used some of those USAID funds they cut to feed and vaccinate starving children around the globe to pay for it. They claimed they wanted to cut wasteful spending and then created an event to spend money wastefully. Or maybe that's part of the tax cuts to billionaires.
It's the way it's always been. Neither party actually cares about spending as long as they're spending it on what they want to spend it on.
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According to trump it was a snooze fest
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Another rando makes inflammatory post on twitter. Details at 11:00......
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I didn't watch a moment of it.. Wasn't sure when it was even happening.
Does anyone have a handle on turnout for the actual parade?
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Expectations before were around 200,000-don't know if that was tickets that were spoken for-most of those people ordered tickets with no intention of going.
Saw some video of the parade crowd last night on socials-most of the guesses I saw was in the 10-20k range.
Some people said that yesterday wasn't even as busy as a normal weekend day in DC
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Does anyone have a handle on turnout for the actual parade? It's a much longer article but this is the part of it that pertains to your question....... At times, Trump stood and saluted as troops marched past the reviewing stand. But attendance appeared to fall far short of early predictions that as many as 200,000 people would attend the festival and parade. There were large gaps between viewers near the Washington Monument on a day when steamy weather and the threat of thunderstorms could have dampened turnout. https://apnews.com/article/trump-ar...rotests-4cca4da0e89908d39c820240744375a1
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Thank you. Pressed on me really young.
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The parade seemed like a really nice way to honor 250 years of the Army. Sometimes it is needed to take time and celebrate, and the Army should be celebrated.
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Does anyone have a handle on turnout for the actual parade? It's a much longer article but this is the part of it that pertains to your question....... At times, Trump stood and saluted as troops marched past the reviewing stand. But attendance appeared to fall far short of early predictions that as many as 200,000 people would attend the festival and parade. There were large gaps between viewers near the Washington Monument on a day when steamy weather and the threat of thunderstorms could have dampened turnout. https://apnews.com/article/trump-ar...rotests-4cca4da0e89908d39c820240744375a1Between 5 and 7 million turned out for No King protests. 47 mil divide by 200,000 $235 per person.
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