the rest of the country. outside the beltway, in a totally nonpartisan way across the country, lots and lots of americans have been thinking about what happens to this new generations of veterans when they come home. sometimes with injuries and trauma and almost always in need of a new job. ordinary americans are holding their own parades. welcome home troops, love st. louis. welcome home troops, love houston. welcome home, love rich mand, virginia. also welcome home, love melbourne, florida, and tucson, and new england coastal portsmouth, new hampshire. all over the country, citizens taking things into their own hands to mark the end of the iraq war. to say thank you and welcome home. and, look at this. we just got the new poster for a new welcome home parade for post 9/11 veterans in the great big city of chicago on december 15th. welcome home. the pentagon for reasons that i do not start to understand still