Rachelle's Reading List, Tuesday February 7th, 2012

If Giants Get a Parade, Say Some Vets, Why Not Us? [NYTimes] Did you miss the Giant ticker tape parade today? Check out some photos from it here. Not a Giants fan? No worries, the tradition of the ticker tape parade, is being used as inspiration for a new kind of parade: one for our troops:

“Everybody recognizes that the Giants deserve a parade,” said Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. But, he added, “If a football team gets a parade, shouldn’t our veterans?” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has long expressed his regret that the United States did not do a better job honoring veterans of the Vietnam War in the 1970s, has cited advice from the Pentagon in deciding it was not appropriate to hold a parade while American soldiers are still fighting in Afghanistan.

For the record: I'm totally in support of ticker tape parades of any and all kind.