Remember and Salute Our Veterans Today

(N.Y. Daily News) - Today holds the promise of becoming the biggest Veterans Day celebration in many a New York year, and may it be so. Let cheers be full-throated, let salutes be crisp and let both be great in number.

Thousands of vets are expected to march up Fifth Ave., the largest contingent in memory, and hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens are expected to turn out in honor.

The more, the better.

Attitudes toward the military have changed markedly for the better over the past eight years - since 9/11, really. The disgraceful days when the parade route was all but empty and the applause hollow appear to have been banished.