Our veterans here march with the flag they fought under. The politics of the flag mean nothing to the veterans, whether they are marching under the red flag, the Russian Imperial Eagle, the white/blue/red, or the blue/yellow Ukrainian flag. The veterans are honored, not the political ideology of the flag, and we here, just as I did in USA and Germany, honor the VETERANS, not anything political. The attached photos are of the German Military Cemetery on the Yalta Road south of the Yalta Ring in the foothills of the south mountains above the coast. There's over 10.000 of them there, and more are buried there every year as they are found, with full military honors, as are more Russian boys buried with honors in the Old Post Road Cemetery overlooking Inkerman and at St. Nikolas as they are found. Eight months ago we put over 300 lads in the Old Post Road Cemetery. 4 years ago we put another 5 Russian lads at St. Nikolas....from the 1855 Krimea War.

My father died 8 years ago. He was E8, 101 Airborne, D Day, Market Garden, and Bastogne. Silver, two Bronze, and the Purple. When Ye'lean'chka and I go to the Veterans Day parades, I salute him....and all the other veterans, both with us and gone...... matters not who they fought for.