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Somebody said who are you and what are you represent? they said we're not going to tell you. they said they're not going to press charges. great news. if the students wouldn't say what they're protesting that's not a protest, that's bad behavior. i got an e-mail from a fellow by john weekly, he says the flag does not stand for our government or its policies, it stands for us we the people. trashing the flag means trashing the people. >> her husband is active duty right now. if you have someone in your family -- you're a citizen at mping over the flag, you've got to do something. >> right. i ag...

>> it is an icon, an iconic, that is to say, american image. u.s. soldiers from world war ii honored with a huge ticker tape parade when they came home. i believe that is new york city. there's also a parade marking the end of other wars. joining us right now a vietnam vet who also threw a parade to welcome home gulf war troops, john weekly. he is joins us live from dallas. good morning. >> good morning. >> you were the executive producers for the stars and stripes for troops when they came home from gulf war i, weren't you? >> i was. we had the largest celebration in the country. we had peopl...

Were from the coalition countries so it was quite a celebration. >> it sounds like it. yesterday on this program we were talking about, the pentagon hasn't asked yet for a parade and it doesn't sound like the white house wants one because nobody wants to take a victory lap. here's rick perry running for president on how he feels that a lack of parade would be disrespectful. >> it really disturbs me that nearly after nine years of war in iraq, that this president wouldn't welcome home our many heros with a simple parade in their honor. >> steve: a simple parade in their honor is what a lot of p...

That of their families. >> when you returned from vietnam, no parade? >> well, we didn't have a parade, but the city of dallas, which is an extraordinarily patriotic city, did stage a welcome home the troops event at the cotton bowl and we had bob hope in. >> that's nice. >> it was wonderful to be thanked in that way and i thought that was a great thing for the city to do. >> sure. absolutely. but it would be nice to have a national-scale parade. so if somebody is watching right now and wants to organize it and get the ball rolling, let us know. john weekly did just that, and we thank him very...