NOT TO BELABOR THE POINT, BUT HOW CAN THERE NOT BE ENOUGH MILITARY PERSONNEL TO HAVE PARADES?

An estimated 24,000 people work at the Pentagon, of which roughly half are civilians. That leaves 12,000 uniformed personnel sitting at desks - that's not enough to get a parade together?

According to this random document (which I'm not sure we're supposed to be able to read), there are 172,600 Marines, which I believe is greater than our current forward commitment in Iraq and Korea. And since the vast majority of forces in those countries are Army, perhaps some of these legendary warriors could make time to show up for a parade.

Of course were are a bit short of manpower by historical standards. Today's armed forces have about 1.3-1.4 million people (similar to the peak strength of the combined Union and Confederate armies in the Civil War). In World War II, the U.S. armed forces got up to eleven million. ELEVEN. But, not only, not only the right of free travel, I'm saying...ELEVEN.

The CIA says if we really got pissed we could get about 75 mm people into the military...