From Gerry Milligan
I do not think that anyone reading this enjoys a parade as much as I do, but our president wants a military parade on Pennsylvania Avenue. A military parade is not the Rose Parade or Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. In my time serving in some third world countries I saw a couple of military parades. One word describe them: BORING! First, military persons passing by a reviewing stand, over and over. Then there are the tanks and armored personnel carriers chewing up the road with their treads. If it happens on the fourth of July with the heat and humidity of Washington D.C. the roads will be really trashed. And we get to pay for it. Not my idea of fun. I hope that our president's ego does not over rule cooler heads, but really doubt it.