The line to the inspection tent. It took about a half hour to reach the tent where a half dozen inspection stations were manned by the same TSA employees you see at the airport. You had to walk in fairly clean, no big bags or sticks or loose objects that could be thrown. They patted you down and looked at your cell phone (could be a grenade) and through your camera. It only took about ninety seconds.

They had to do this for the tens of thousands of people inside the two mile long fenced off parade route.

Once I got inside, I realized the parade route was sectioned off into cells. I couldn't walk down to the other end where the biggest idiots were. Fortunately, there were enough idiots spread through the crowd so that I wasn't disappointed.