BY RYAN KIDD: Is it, like, any wonder people don't come downtown anymore, dude? It seems that every year around Veterans Day, the dilapidated, ratty-looking war veterans of yore gimp along Fifth Avenue, cluttering up our streets with their war-mongering nostalgia and so forth. Thus was it so today as Pittsburgh observed yet another Veterans Day parade. Like, yawn!
These old men all act like they're still injured or wounded or not right in the head in their wheelchairs, some of them. Others, they walk upright carrying flags and what-not, looking altogether too proud of themselves, for whatever reason, with their medals pinned all over their old-man shirts.
Seriously, dude, is this the kind of people we want hanging around downtown? What kind of Velcro-sneaker, retirement-community-image are we trying to foster here?
If our town father-dudes, Luke Ravenstahl, 27, and Yarone Zober, 32, really want downtown to rock, they'll have to sponsor a video game parade or something, with hot chicks and beer. Then maybe we'll attract the right kind of people downtown.
