[2dogs]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,88303,00.html

Organizers of a Veterans Day parade in De Pere, Wis., initially refused to allow anyone to carry firearms in it because organizers thought they carry bad karma, reports the Green Bay Press Gazette.

Not even ceremonial guns were allowed in the parade, and some veterans groups were not happy about it. "The [parade organizing] committee felt that kids have been watching war and killing people for the first half of this year and we didn’t need that in a happy event like our parade," said Jason Paul, chairman of the De Pere Kiwanis Memorial Day Parade. After a public outcry, however, the organizers relented.

[treeprof]

a happy event like our parade

I always found them a bit somber as a kid, watching all the old vets, horse-drawn cannon, etc. marching by. God forbid kids should be exposed to anything other than happy thoughts. Idiots.

[Ol' Badger]

Uniforms too. They give low self estem to those who never wore them. Uniform are out. Also everyone who acted brave. They make the rest of us look bad. :

[GSB]

we didn’t need that in a happy event like our parade

Excuse me? Since when is Veterans day supposed to be a "happy event"? Like Memorial Day, it should be a day of solemn reflection on the sacrifices and service of those who have served this country. It's not all about the cookouts and beer!

[Standing Wolf]

...we didn’t need that in a happy event like our parade...

I wonder what happy events he things Veterans Day celebrates. Leftists are such nitwits!

[longeyes]

Bad karma? Well, I would certainly hope so.:evil: