raising a question of when the city will welcome home another group of heros, the veterans of the war in iraq. like danell willis. it looks like the giants ride today only with line after line of marching troops. we ve heard talk of parades in other cities for veterans of our second war in iraq, but so far only the mighty mighty city of st. louis has thrown one. it started with two ordinary guys and a facebook page. it did not start off as an official response, but the whole city got behind it. they turnd out 100,000 people. the official response in new york has been that now is too soon. with troops like sergeant willis back from iraq but still serving in afghanistan, not now, maybe later. instead the white house is planning a gala dinner for a few hundred veterans to take place in a few weeks. before the super bowl a couple of members of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, new yorkers, put out this video not just for a welcome home parade but a national day of
your picture and go down to manhattan just for the parade so that you can be there a part of it. wow. i know he s happy now, and he s smiling. he loves this. we know for a fact that he loves this even without his mom telling us, because p if you look back at the old coverage of the last giants champion sthip in 2008, you will find a daniel willis of brooklyn celebrating telling the paper, i don t know all the words in the dictionary, but i don t think webster has a word to describe how i feel. we know in from his post in afghanistan. he sent this before the game. look. how are you doing? my name is staff sergeant danell willis. i want to say hi to my family back in brooklyn and go big blue. from afghanistan. after all that he was there today, if only as a picture on his mom s poster downtown. you cannot throw a ticker-tape parade, and they through a
today only with line after line of marching troops. we ve heard talk of parades in other cities for veterans of our second war in iraq, but so far only the mighty mighty city of st. louis has thrown one. it started with two ordinary guys and a facebook page. it did not start off as an official response, but the whole city got behind it. they turnd out 100,000 people. the official response in new york has been that now is too soon. with troops like sergeant willis back from iraq but still serving in afghanistan, not now, maybe later. instead the white house is planning a gala dinner for a few hundred veterans to take place in a few weeks. before the super bowl a couple of members of iraq and afghanistan set rans in america put out this video calling for a parade and also a national day of action to help troops find help if they need it. today we asked glenda willis, a mom with kids that logged four tours rs one still at war, we asked her today about a tick r tape parade for the troops.
telling us, because p if you look back at the old coverage of the last giants champion sthip in 2008, you will find a daniel willis of brooklyn celebrating telling the paper, i don t know all the words in the dictionary, but i don t think webster has a word to describe how i feel. we know in from his post in afghanistan. he sent this before the game. look. how are you doing? my name is staff sergeant danell willis. i want to say hi to my family back in brooklyn and go big blue. from afghanistan. after all that he was there today, if only as a picture on his mom s poster downtown. you cannot throw aa t ticker-ta parade, and they through a parade for americans from the gulf war. it looks like the giants ride
with troops like sergeant willis back from iraq but still serving in afghanistan, not now, maybe later, instead the white house is planning a continue for veterans to take place. a couple members veterans of america, new yorkers called for a welcome home parade but national day of action to help troops find help. we asked glenda willis, whose kids logged four tours of duty, we asked her about a ticker tape parade for the troops. why do you think there hasn t been a parade for veterans coming home from iraq? i think we don t support the veterans as they should be supported. we need to show a little more apr rea apr appreciation and compassion for the job they do. little more appreciation and compassion. i know this issue of parades to mark the end of the iraq war is one on which reasonable people can disagree, i also know this