The Army Parade Was Marked by Quiet Crowds, Trump-Linked Sponsors. But Soldiers Kept Politics at Bay.
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For many soldiers, the Army 's 250th birthday parade in Washington, D.C., on Saturday was a celebration they managed to divorce from its politically charged backdrop, including its overlap with President Donald Trump's 79th birthday and the president's deployment of troops against protesters in Los Angeles. "This was about us, not him," one senior noncommissioned officer told Military.com. Still, for other troops, it was hard to ignore the unusual imagery of parading military hardware in the
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