Fox News Digital spoke to attendees of the D.C. military parade, some who had traveled hundreds of miles to participate, about why they had come to the nation’s capital for the event.

The parade must go on, and the Army sidestepped a major crisis of image and messaging. The Army’s 250th birthday parade was not the grand military spectacle that many anticipated, and for that Americans can breathe a momentary, measured sigh of relief.

The Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway told FNC's "Fox News Sunday" panel that she enjoyed President Trump's military parade yesterday: SHANNON BREAM: Those who didn’t think the imagery was a good idea for this president included Peggy Noonan,

The procession, with more than 6,000 soldiers and 128 Army tanks, was one Trump tried to make happen in his first term.