Yet another dumb idea from the Moron-in-Chief
"The marching orders were: I want a parade like the one in France" is what a military official said, on promise of anonymity to the Washington Post.
Yet another example of the man who will undoubtedly go down in history as the worst president in the history of this nation; is doing something dumb. He sees a military parade in France on Bastille Day and thinks "what a great idea, we should do that."
Reports are that the parade might be held on Veterans Day.
Let's compare and contrast Bastille Day with Veterans Day.
Bastille Day celebrates several things, beginning with the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. That took place on July 14, 1789. One year later, France held the Fête de la Fédération. It was not a celebration of the storming of the Bastille, but of the unity of the people of France. It was also held to symbolize peace itself. That became the holiday we know today as Bastille Day.
Veterans Day in the U.S. began as Armistice Day. It was first celebrated on November 11, 1919 when then President Woodrow Wilson issued this message:
ADDRESS TO FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN
The White House, November 11, 1919.
A year ago today our enemies laid down their arms in accordance with an armistice which rendered them impotent to renew hostilities, and gave to the world an assured opportunity to reconstruct its shattered order and to work out in peace a new and juster set of international relations. The soldiers and people of the European Allies had fought and endured for more than four years to uphold the barrier of civilization against the aggressions of armed force. We ourselves had been in the conflict something more than a year and a half.
With splendid forgetfulness of mere personal concerns, we remodeled our industries, concentrated our financial resources, increased our agricultural output, and assembled a great army, so that at the last our power was a decisive factor in the victory. We were able to bring the vast resources, material and moral, of a great and free people to the assistance of our associates in Europe who had suffered and sacrificed without limit in the cause for which we fought.
Out of this victory there arose new possibilities of political freedom and economic concert. The war showed us the strength of great nations acting together for high purposes, and the victory of arms foretells the enduring conquests which can be made in peace when nations act justly and in furtherance of the common interests of men.
To us in America the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service, and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of nations.
WOODROW WILSON
Yet another example of the man who will undoubtedly go down in history as the worst president in the history of this nation; is doing something dumb. He sees a military parade in France on Bastille Day and thinks "what a great idea, we should do that."
Reports are that the parade might be held on Veterans Day.
Let's compare and contrast Bastille Day with Veterans Day.
Bastille Day celebrates several things, beginning with the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. That took place on July 14, 1789. One year later, France held the Fête de la Fédération. It was not a celebration of the storming of the Bastille, but of the unity of the people of France. It was also held to symbolize peace itself. That became the holiday we know today as Bastille Day.
Veterans Day in the U.S. began as Armistice Day. It was first celebrated on November 11, 1919 when then President Woodrow Wilson issued this message:
ADDRESS TO FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN
The White House, November 11, 1919.
A year ago today our enemies laid down their arms in accordance with an armistice which rendered them impotent to renew hostilities, and gave to the world an assured opportunity to reconstruct its shattered order and to work out in peace a new and juster set of international relations. The soldiers and people of the European Allies had fought and endured for more than four years to uphold the barrier of civilization against the aggressions of armed force. We ourselves had been in the conflict something more than a year and a half.
With splendid forgetfulness of mere personal concerns, we remodeled our industries, concentrated our financial resources, increased our agricultural output, and assembled a great army, so that at the last our power was a decisive factor in the victory. We were able to bring the vast resources, material and moral, of a great and free people to the assistance of our associates in Europe who had suffered and sacrificed without limit in the cause for which we fought.
Out of this victory there arose new possibilities of political freedom and economic concert. The war showed us the strength of great nations acting together for high purposes, and the victory of arms foretells the enduring conquests which can be made in peace when nations act justly and in furtherance of the common interests of men.
To us in America the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service, and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of nations.
WOODROW WILSON
Today we celebrate Veterans Day to pay tribute to the men and women who have served in uniform. We have another holiday, Memorial Day, to pay tribute to those who perished while serving our nation. We have Armed Forces Day, the third Saturday in May each year.
A celebration to pay tribute to those of us who have served, should not be a display of our nation's military might. We don't need to do that. It is very easy to pay tribute to veterans without parading tanks down Pennsylvania Avenue.
China has a large annual parade of its military. So do Russia and North Korea. See anything else those nations have in common? A lack of freedoms.
A man who boasts about having a bigger nuclear "button" than another world leader who now wants a military parade should concern everyone.
Aside from the bad message such a parade would send, it would also be a colossal waste of money. In the year after this fool pushed a tax reform plan through the Congress that will add $1.5 trillion to our national debt over the next decade, a military parade makes no sense from a fiscal standpoint. This from the man who promised to cut government waste.
posted by me at 10:51 AM
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