Can you imagine being the first foreign army to march through London in centuries? Mostly women and children looking on as a lot of able bodied men from England were in the war or had already paid the ultimate sacrifice. Old women crying at the sight and thinking of their husbands and sons in war. Young women along the way starving for male attention as these fine young men from another country paraded before them, instructed to look duty-bound, representing the US. It was said that they were "Solemn Looking Bloaks". I think that was meant in a most endearing way.