No Parade Planned For U.S. Troops Returning From Iraq

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Americans will more than likely not be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade anytime soon for troops returning from Iraq, and it?s unclear if veterans of the 9-year campaign will ever enjoy the grand, flag-waving, red-white-and-blue homecoming that the nation?s fighting men and women werea able to receive after World War II and the Gulf War.

Officials in New York and Washington stated that they would be happy to help stage a big celebration, but Pentagon officials stated they have not been asked to plan one.

Majority of the welcome-homes have been on a smaller scale: hugs from families at military posts across the country, a somber commemoration by President Obama at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

With tens of thousands of U.S. troops continuing to fight a bloody war in Afghanistan, anything that looks like a big victory celebration could be seen as premature and unseemly, some are saying.

Don Mrozek, a military history professor at Kansas State University said it?s going to be a bit awkward to be celebrating too much, given how much there is going on and how much there will be going on in Afghanistan.

New York City councilmen, Republicans Vincent Ignizio along with James Oddo, are calling for a ticker-tape parade down the stretch of Broadway known as the Canyon of Heroes. A celebration that was similar after the Gulf War, was paid for with more than $5.2 million in private donations, a model the councilmen would be happy to follow.

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