Monday, May 10, 2010

... and the old Cold Warrior did smile

Great Britain, United States of America, France. Red Square.

Nice.



Any yes - the Brits have the best covers.

17 comments:

Byron said...

I don't know what unit that is, but Lord, does it have a lot of streamers!

AW1 Tim said...

As I commented elsewhere regarding this, it's something that I NEVER thought I'd live to see.
 Now we gotta invite some Russkies over to DC for the 4th of July parade and all that!

Anonymous said...

too bad we didn't send the Old Guard and let them wear the Revolutionary War uniforms

CV60 said...

You kick the a55 out of Napoleon's Imperial Guard, and you get to wear hats like that......

DeltaBravo said...

Does this mean we won????  Did we win???  Did we win???!  (Doesn't the winner always parade their colors through the capital of the not so winner side?)

NEVER thought I'd ever see a video like this either, Tim!  I wouldn't invite them to march in the parade... but they're welcome to take part in the barbecue and the beer.  They'd like that!  We'll even play the 1812 Overture for them with cannons and everything on the mall!

SCOTTtheBADGER said...

Nice covers, true, but kind of hard on the bears.

AW1 Tim said...

 Yeah, the Old Guard would have been nice ro see. For added goodness, we could have had their drums and fifes play the tune they played when Cornwallis surrendered. "The World Turned Upside Down".

  Would have been appropriate in Red Square too, yes?

ewok40k said...

and Poles too :)

ewok40k said...

...but vid was probably cutoff as we're not considered important enough... sad considering we had 4th largest Allied force in 1945 coming from both sides of the Elbe...

YNSN said...

BZ for Russia being able to over come the very vocal Russian Nationalists not wanting to allow foreign troops to march in Red Square. 

That is the stuff that better futures are made of.  That is one of the few symbolic gestures that actually transcend just being symbolic. 

This gesture as well, in the speeches given had an honest tone in all that was said by the Russian government.  Whether it lasts or not, I don't know.  But, it is awesome right now.

YNSN said...

The unit which had the honor of marching through Red Square are members of the 170th Infantry Brigade stationed in Baumholder, Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/170th_Infantry_Brigade_%28United_States%29

JT said...

The French sure are wearing a lot of shiny stuff.

Byron said...

Thanks, my friend!

SCOTTtheBADGER said...

I remember how startled I was when the Blue Angels performed at the Moscow Air Show.

steeljawscribe said...

the Cold Warrior may have smiled but Putin flipped the bird...

prschoef said...

It was the British, not the Yankees who played that tune.

Salty Gator said...

Love it.  French fixed bayonets too which was funny.  If you noticed, the British and the Americans did not dip their colors, but the frogs did when they were doing the pass and review.  The British formation commander was also out of step. 

So hoo yah America!  1) In step 2) no dip of the flag (and yes our flag was taller than everyone else's in typical "America, F Yeah" mode, and 3) no silly bayonets.