Maybe it isn't showing it off to the other countries but a chance for our own citizens to admire our people in the uniform.
Maybe it isn't showing it off to the other countries but a chance for our own citizens to admire our people in the uniform.
Surely, given all the opportunities and places around the U.S. in which one can do exactly that, you jest? In addition to all these and more extant and recurring opportunities to do exactly that:
- Visit the Pentagon
- Visit West Point
- Visit the U.S. Naval Academy
- Visit the Norfolk Naval Station (including ship tours)
- Visit Marine Base Quantico
- Attend or watch Army-Navy games
- Visit Naval Air Station Wildwood
- Visit Naval Submarine Station New London
- Visit the Coast Guard Academy
- Visit Edwards Air Force Base
- Blue Angels (Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron)
- Golden Knights (Army Parachute Team)
- Leap Frogs (Navy Parachute Team)
- Thunderbirds (Air Force Flight Demonstration Squadron)
- Sea Chanters (Navy Chorus)
- Wings of Freedom (World War II-era bombers available for flight experience)
- Visit Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
That would be but a handful of the places where Americans can go to "admire our people in uniform." Here is an even more comprehensive list:
People expect a parade to honor the team that wins a football game but it can't have a parade honoring those that fight and put their life on the line for us? Surely, you jest.
Jackson, please....
You don't force the winners of the superbowl to go and handwash their uniforms and the uniforms of others and polish their helmets and shoes, and polish the helmets and shoes of others, and then practice for hours on end marching in lock step, and then have them hand carry an entire football field and goal posts on their back to Washington DC,
for a march that is suppose to celebrate, themselves...
Others put on parades to celebrate the winners
The winners are never forced to put a lot of very hard work, in to a parade for themselves.
