Both helicopter and snowplow parents are raising children to believe they have few faults and will always be successful.

Most marchers were children, Girl and Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Brownies. One Cub Scout pulled his sister in a Radio Flyer decorated with small American flags. A Brownie pushed a baby carriage crammed with a zoo of stuffed animals.

Now it is reasonable to assume that some of those winners were professional dice-hustlers and bust-out men, the latter term meaning one proficient in switching misspotted dice in and out of a game.

There is no time for lunch, hauling myself from one place to the next.