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On Trump's Military Parade: The baby hanging off the tank is me. This Sherman Tank was named the Shirley May after my grandmother. The tank was posting in the front yard of my family's complex housing dozens of military vehicles and surplus parts. 
My father is a [licensed] third generation armada dealer. The complex was built up around a house built by my great grandfather. My great grandfather, grandfather, grandmother, mother, father, and various cousins all worked for the company. My uncle is one of the foremost
experts and restorers of early 20th century military Harleys. I spent my childhood scurrying over tanks and trucks and amphibious assault vehicles and sweeping warehouses filled with US Military surplus parts for extra pocket money. From the earliest age I was endowed with a
strong sense of respect and appreciation for America's military and technological might being immersed in the very hardware that made such might possible. But never did I imagine that an American President would flaunt such obvious power and superiority in such a brash and
infantile manner. There was never and there still is no reason. Such displays are the providence of dictatorial insecurities of leaders in the developing world or the historical leftovers of developed countries seeking to recapture the glory of their now lost hegemonic power.
The glory of American exceptionalism is the undeniable lack of need to flex military strength to quell domestic discontent or to remind the rest of the world we have the power to destroy mankind hundreds of times over. Such displays are best left to museums and the undeniable
might that can be surmised simply by knowing our military budget. An American military parade should be reserved for returning heroes of war and not the glorification of necessary but unquestionably tools of destruction. Anything else is just makes us look smaller than we are.
