Thanks to all the service men and women who dedicate their lives to our security and happiness. Happy Memorial Day.
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thebaron@enter.net
If we really want to honor the sacrifice of so many lives for our freedom, we should repeal the Uniform Monday Holidays Act of 1971, which moved Memorial Day from May 30, to the last Monday in May. It also moved Washington’s Birthday to the third Monday in February. So instead of falling where it would during the week, three-day weekends were created, solely for the convenience of federal employees.
It’s as if the law was meant to say, “Sorry, Grandpa! We appreciate that you stormed ashore at Omaha Beach, or Iwo Jima, but we can’t be bothered to take a day off to commemorate your sacrifice, not on a different day every year. It’s too inconvenient.” If that isn’t disrespectful, what is?
Move it back to the 30th, and close everything for the day, and observe the holiday properly.
Van Gott
It seems to me at age 92 a huge discrepancy in attitude between those who witnessed in some fashion the events and immediate fallout from WW 2 and those 50 or so and younger. Probably due to more moralistic attitudes or the Circean magnetism of the salesmen of the lure of ideal communism. Whatever, the vast majority of those who experienced the 2 nd world war had no hesitancy in backing whatever it took to terminate the Japanese and Nazi regimes. I remember as a grade schooler walking past the homes in my neighborhood in Kansas City and seeing all the windows with one and occasionally more gold or silver stars displayed showing how much our little community was indebted to our neighbors known and unknown who had or were putting their tomorrows on the line for the rest of us. We owe them so much.
If we really want to honor the sacrifice of so many lives for our freedom, we should repeal the Uniform Monday Holidays Act of 1971, which moved Memorial Day from May 30, to the last Monday in May. It also moved Washington’s Birthday to the third Monday in February. So instead of falling where it would during the week, three-day weekends were created, solely for the convenience of federal employees.
It’s as if the law was meant to say, “Sorry, Grandpa! We appreciate that you stormed ashore at Omaha Beach, or Iwo Jima, but we can’t be bothered to take a day off to commemorate your sacrifice, not on a different day every year. It’s too inconvenient.” If that isn’t disrespectful, what is?
Move it back to the 30th, and close everything for the day, and observe the holiday properly.
It seems to me at age 92 a huge discrepancy in attitude between those who witnessed in some fashion the events and immediate fallout from WW 2 and those 50 or so and younger. Probably due to more moralistic attitudes or the Circean magnetism of the salesmen of the lure of ideal communism. Whatever, the vast majority of those who experienced the 2 nd world war had no hesitancy in backing whatever it took to terminate the Japanese and Nazi regimes. I remember as a grade schooler walking past the homes in my neighborhood in Kansas City and seeing all the windows with one and occasionally more gold or silver stars displayed showing how much our little community was indebted to our neighbors known and unknown who had or were putting their tomorrows on the line for the rest of us. We owe them so much.