think about new york city's decision to essentially take the pentagon advice, the pentagon's advice, not the veterans groups, but the pentagon's advice that they should wait and not do a parade now for the iraq war even though the iraq war ended? >> i have a great respect for our government and for the pentagon. but i also have a great respect for our veterans. it is for our veterans. it's the right thing to do. and the time to do it is now. >> st. louis county executive charlie dooly, veteran of the vietnam war, thank you for your time tonight, sir. i've been looking forward to the chance to talk to you about this. i'm grateful for it. >> thanks for having me, rachael. >> thanks. >> still ahead on "the last word" there is a draw dropping investigation about guns, guns being sold with no background checks at all and it's apparently perfectly legal. essential viewing. and here florists, indicatorers, djs, your stimulus has arrived.