Happy Veteran's Day!

Yer welcome. Who thinks it should be changed to a celebrate it on a Friday/Monday type holiday. I get the Veterans sentiments about not wanting it commercialized when it was first made as Armistice Day, but I think maybe the time has come.
 
Commercialize Veterans Day? Absolutely not!

(or did I misunderstand the post?)
 
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luvflyin said:
Yer welcome. Who thinks it should be changed to a celebrate it on a Friday/Monday type holiday. I get the Veterans sentiments about not wanting it commercialized when it was first made as Armistice Day, but I think maybe the time has come.
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For me, the significance of Veteran’s Day is lost to me if you decouple it from Armistice Day. This is an instance where tradition matters more than convenience.
 
TCABM said:
For me, the significance of Veteran’s Day is lost to me if you decouple it from Armistice Day. This is an instance where tradition matters more than convenience.
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My thinking is along the lines that if there is the 3 day weekend like so many other holidays, there would be more celebrations of the Veterans like parades etc. Sure, it will just be party time to many
 
luvflyin said:
My thinking is along the lines that if there is the 3 day weekend like so many other holidays, there would be more celebrations of the Veterans like parades etc. Sure, it will just be party time to many
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That was tried in 1968. The states w/Veteran’s Day holidays on the books ignored the change in federal law and, in 1971, Veteran’s Day was celebrated in October as a result. Much confusion ensued.

In 1975, Ford signed a law to move it back to 11/11 beginning in 1978 as all was well in the world.
 
I'm not a veteran. Glad there's a day, and don't care what day it is.
 
It was originally intended as a day of "reflection" and "remembrance for the those who were killed" during the 1st world war. Today's Veteran's Day bears little resemblance, unless you happen to run into a VFW member and receive a poppy.

When people tell me "Thank you for your service" I usually respond with 'Thank you. But, my wife had the hard job. I just travelled the world and did fun stuff."
 
IMHO if it gets changed to a Monday, then it looses meaning. I can remember when Washington's and Lincoln's B Day meant something. Memorial Day was about going to the cemetery for a time of remembrance.

Now Memorial Day is a summer kick off beach beer party, and Lincoln and Washington got combined into President's Day as an excuse for mattress sales. Lost the honoring and remembrance.

So let's keep it as the 11th day of the 11th month, as it can also be used as an excuse to remind people that on that day on the 11th hour the armistice for WWI occurred. (You might have to remind that who was fighting in WWI, or maybe remind them that there was a WWI.)
 
WDD said:
IMHO if it gets changed to a Monday, then it looses meaning. I can remember when Washington's and Lincoln's B Day meant something. Memorial Day was about going to the cemetery for a time of remembrance.

Now Memorial Day is a summer kick off beach beer party, and Lincoln and Washington got combined into President's Day as an excuse for mattress sales. Lost the honoring and remembrance.

So let's keep it as the 11th day of the 11th month, as it can also be used as an excuse to remind people that on that day on the 11th hour the armistice for WWI occurred. (You might have to remind that who was fighting in WWI, or maybe remind them that there was a WWI.)
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What date would be picked for Memorial Day? It doesn’t represent a particular event like Armistice Day did.
 
For decades, Memorial Day continued to be observed on May 30th, the date General Logan had selected for the first Decoration Day
But in 1968, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which established Memorial Day as the last Monday in May in order to create a three-day weekend for federal employees
 
wilkersk said:
When people tell me "Thank you for your service" I usually respond with 'Thank you. But, my wife had the hard job. I just travelled the world and did fun stuff."
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When people tell me "thank you for your service", I respond with "I should be thanking you...you paid for my Desert Storm vacation package."
 
No joking, I like to hire veterans not just because it's the right thing to do, but because I figure if they successfully put up with whatever the level of goofiness that being in the military consists of, working in IT won't seem quite as illogical by comparison.

Or in other words, a lot of our computer stuff is designed poorly and unreliable, and our processes almost never make any sense at all, but most of it isn't also lethal.
 
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