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Skeptical historians, for instance, are questioning plans in Nuremberg to spend $100 million on the renovation of the Nazi Party Rally Grounds, where Hitler proudly watched marches of his goose-stepping hordes.
Community members who attend the dress rehearsal every year cheered as flying alarm clocks, harried rabbits and spinning watches marched to Pink Floyd's "Time".
"He was more than God to me," Mr. Litkei said of Roosevelt in a 1991 interview, adding that the cadence of his march came from watching marching American soldiers.
But instead, models wearing red, white and blue Ruritanian-style uniforms stepped into guard boxes lined with pretty wallpaper and watched marching men with coat skirts swinging out, military tunics elongated to the ankle and what looked uncomfortably like buffed-up Nazi uniforms.
And so, while the people around him watched marching bands and held street parties to mark America's bicentennial, and while the world marvelled at the sheer audacity of a military raid that defied all odds, Ben Nitay – born Binyamin Netanyahu – made the seven-hour drive to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where his father was teaching.
Since September 2004 the guards also patrol every half hour during their watch: they march off from the base of the monument and march twice along each side of it and then return to their posts.
I watch him march sternly over the gravel; I watch him cross the threshold and disappear inside.
"This is going to explode now," 26-year-old Katie tells me, as we watch demonstrators marched out of Zuccotti Park one by one.
