My government contacts called in June and asked if I want to be in an event on national day ... I didn't know until two weeks ago that it was the parade, they couldn't tell me what it was, but they said it'll be the honor of a lifetime, so I said 'OK'.

Gary Dvorchak

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It's not like they're singling the U.S. out for friendship, in fact they're probably not, it's very much about China and China celebrating itself, as it should be. It's just nice to be in it.

They did the whole thing, they had the TV screens up, they had cameras, even the galleries were filled with a practice audience, the people coming in from outside were awestruck.