
Coverage of worldwide celebration missed our market. So, on behalf of Peoria’s Jewish community, since local media ignored the Jewish Federation of Peoria, we will share its news release with pride and thanksgiving.

No one called the first military parade — the Grand Review of the Armies in Washington D.C., in 1865 — President Johnson’s parade; no one called the military parade in New York City in 1942 President Roosevelt’s parade; no one called the 1991 parade in D.C. marking the end of the Gulf War President Bush’s parade; so why was last month’s Army Day parade in the capitol President Trump’s?