Hemingway: We Wouldn’t Even Have A Country Without The U.S. Army
The Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway told FNC’s “Fox News Sunday” panel that she enjoyed President Trump’s military parade yesterday:
SHANNON BREAM: Those who didn’t think the imagery was a good idea for this president included Peggy Noonan, writing in the Wall Street Journal, It all sounds showy, militaristic and braggadocious-that kind of thing the Soviet Union did in its May Day parades, and North Korea still does. We don’t do that. We don’t have big military parades with shiny, gleaming weapons driven through the streets. MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: That’s not true. We actually have had military parades in our past, and I think a lot of Americans want to see more of that. There is this hunger for feeling like we’ve lost something of a patriotic zeal, and people are hungry to get that back. My family was Marines and Air Force-not Army-but I went with my family and we loved learning about the history of the U.S. Army. And one of my favorite things they showed yesterday was the gratitude that Americans feel for the Army. So I think a lot of people try to make it seem like celebrating your military and its successes is some politically divisive thing. But for the vast majority of Americans, they are proud to be American, and they do think this is a great country. And they understand that a lot of that rests-first and foremost-with the Army. We wouldn’t even have a country without the United States Army, and a lot of people are very happy to celebrate.
