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Of all the exciting things that I witnessed at the National Commercial Center, nothing will overcome the image of the first thing I saw after I cleared security at the Army Festival: a child, sitting on the controls of the M119a3, which a soldier requested about how he was targeted, as his brutal parents took a photo with Washington’s memorial in the background.
The main reason for the big military parade is to celebrate the birthday of the US Army 250. The second declared reason is to use the event for employment purposes. Like other military branches, the army has struggled to meet the recruitment shares over the past decade. According to very Defense army spokesman try to persuade the skeptics that the show was no Donald Trump’s birthday, was there always It was a planned festival at the National Commercial Center that day, and it was working for more than two years, and the show, which was taken just two months ago, was purely transverse. Assuming that their statement was true, I was not sure whether they expected a lot of people in the stark maga booty – or how much they attended their children and handing them offensive guns.
There were planned children’s friendly events: a children’s area in the American Football Association with a reference photo with the leaders of the leaders in Washington, a few facial compartments, and several walls to climb rocks. But they were holding literally, by dozens of war machines that were parked along the running paths: huge tanks, trucks with constellations installed on weapons, offensive helicopters, many of which are currently used in fighting, all with useful signs explaining the history of each vehicle, as well as the weapons and ammunition that can carry them. Families-who wears everything from J6 shirts to chrome chrome-were attracted more to military vehicles, completely ready to put their children in the cockpit of the AH-1F CoBRA 998 because it pretended to be aimed at the goal of the installed Gatling Cannon in the nose. Parents told their children to smile as they removed their small heads from the M1135 Stryker vehicle vehicle; They mentioned them to be patient waiting for the queue to sit inside the self -Denzer M109a7 with a 155 mm gun cannon.
But seeing the happiness of the child to be within something big leap There was nothing compared to the faces of adults when they got a chance to hold real military offensive rifles – especially the adults who were keen to wear Trump Mirch during the army’s birthday party. (Some have even delivered guns to their children for their OPS. Foolish The average was the AR-15. The attendees were in a state of beating on the robot dog pistol in Boston dynamics, a Quadcopter drone, or any of the other weapons available (except for these historical weapons, maybe only great).
Although many demonstrators arrived in the capital, they were hacked by thousands of people who are ending from Al -Dustour Street to enter the display lands: many heads of Maga, many foreign tourists, and all people who really like to see large tanks. “Angry losers!” They were in the demonstrators. (“Do not worry about them,” one of the policemen said, “They lost anyway.”) After walking behind them, crossing the bridge, and they wandered in hundreds of squares of metal dueling, photography through security, and crossing the suffocated infantry bridge on the constitution, I was finally dumped on the display section: But regardless of the watermelon that the crowd was feeling, this will be dispelled immediately the moment that turned into it The tank to the corner – the music began to bomb.
The Americans have a critical weakness in the rock of the 1970s and the 1980s, and this crowd appears more than willing to look at the questionable origins in the show as long as the soundtrack had a single guitar. The M1 Abrams tank drives your car while Barracuda explodes on a loudspeaker tower? Bads. The Black Hawk helicopter revolves around the Washington monument and disappears behind the American -African History Museum, and crushes your head to “separate roads” through the flight? Faziga. Other M1 Abrams tank?!? !! And the lucky son ??!?!? He said behind me when the crowd shouted for the drivers who waved it.
When you listen to the most difficult pictorial music for rock music for a long time enough, and learn more about the extent to which Bradley’s combat cars are committed to flow (either from the broadcaster or tank lovers next to you), the animal noise controls you – enough to drown All anger in the country about the offerThe enormity of Trump’s strength, the fact that two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota were shot in their homes only on that morning, which is the riot police roaming in the streets of Los Angeles.
This helped not to rain. This has helped that the only people in the show are the militants who did not care if they were broken. By the end of the show, they did not bother to stay for Trump’s speech, and they return to the bridge in the first drop of rain.
The only thing that matters to this crowd inside the security environment- more than the honor and history of the army, and barely More than Trump himself-fiery power, power, solid rocks, and unprecedented ability of America to kill.