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Trump has said he wants to try and top the French Bastille Day parade he attended last year in Paris. It lasted just over two hours.
"We had a lot of planes going over and we had a lot of military might, and it was really a beautiful thing to see," Trump said in September describing the French parade from two months earlier. "They had representatives from different wars and different uniforms. It was really so well done."
You can see the influence of that parade in what the White House requested the Pentagon plot out, right down to the uniforms from wars past.
According to the official, the request was for a parade that would take place on Veteran's Day, with a World War I theme, featuring military aircraft, heavy armored vehicles — possibly including tanks — and troops from all the services taking part. Troops wearing World War I uniforms are also in the mix.