#Veterans Day Parade

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Veterans Day Parade

Auburn, California

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Armistice Day parade at 26 Court Street, 1934. Veterans Day began as a memorial to the end of World War I, when an armistice was signed on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.

Photo: Urban Archive NY Instagram

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‘Three cheers for the King of England’ I shan’t be doing that

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At the Veterans Day parade In Stroudsburg, this afternoon.

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Just a reminder that there were no 9th of May Victory parades in russia till 1965 - two decades after the war has ended.

Stalin attempted to organize one, but realized that the subject caused too much pain to people. Terror and grief, instead of rejoycing.

Veterans, those who came back from the West, having seen the wonders of the world outside the Soviet curtain (like running water or wrist watches), were dangerous to the regime, rather than heroes. So many later perished in Gulags.

Stalin hated the subject of war. He banned memorials, destroyed museums which showcased tragedies, like the one in Leningrad. The idea of him as this great hero came later, after his death.

After the war the streets of Moscow were full of wounded veterans. People missing limbs, mutilated, abandoned by the regime and unable to support themselves. Trauma and PTSD haunting their psyche. In 1946 the regime came after them, exiling many to an island in Lake Ladoga. Their various disabilities did not match the idea of hopeful and prosperous socialism and its iconic physically fit worker man.

Stalin's successor also did not attempt to revive the past. Too many who suffered through it were still alive. Time chiseled the grief, turning it into an echo. And Brezhnev, the second one to rule after Stalin had passed away, started the tradition of parades, pumping into the minds of Soviet citizens the idea of mighty russia defeating fascism.

Putin perfected that ideal, really cranking up the importance of 9th of May parades.

And the voices of those to whom that day was just a continuation of tragedies fell silent against the frenzy of the generations raised on messianism and xenophobia.

But I'll leave it up to those silent witnesses to describe this day. In russian, for russians:

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Veterans Day Parade Boise Idaho

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Vlog: Attended a Veterans Day Parade and Celebration in Jurupa Valley, CA

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Allies on Parade: Five veterans of World War I, representing five of the allied nations, march in the Memorial Day parade, May 30, 1939. They marched in memory of those who gave their lives. Left to right are: Ferdinand Thetion (France); Charles Ferguson (United States); Benjamin Guns (Belgium); George Christie (Great Britain) and Ignazio Sciotino (Italy).

Photo: Associated Press

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Ground control to major Tom

[jepergola]

New story today: "I Thought Memorial Day Was for Summer Barbecues?"