Or are you a glutton for punishment?

and good luck!

You have to phrase everything in the most simplistic terms. And usually, they still don't get it. I'm lucky. I won't be seeing any teabaggers today.

I would argue that most Americans who even pay attention to what this 'holiday' is supposed to be about don't really make much distinction over what is being 'honored'.

Of course, the corporate-military-industrial-lobbyist-complex uses both Memorial Day and Veterans Day to hype the glories of war.

For me, Memorial Day is such a profound anti-war commemoration ... I think of the thousands of American military personnel that have been killed in unnecessary and political wars over the last one hundred years: WW1: Vietnam; Afghanistan; Iraq (not to mention the numerous small conflicts and interventions when the U.S. military was used for extending corporate power around the world).

In the end, way too many dead soldiers died doing their duty, but most certainly did not give-up their lives for liberty and freedom. We just cannot deal with the real truth ... so we make a commemoration like Memorial Day just another propaganda effort to get us ready for the next war and for more and more military spending.

that it's not just another day to sell mattresses at a deep discount?

They disounts cars for the holiday too!

of the event not the contrived extra longer weekend crap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Monday_Holiday_Act

Its would take the almost festival like sales days contrivances out of these solemn days.
Which are days and not holidays.


IMHO!!

KNOW YOUR HISTORY: Memorial Day was started by former slaves on May, 1, 1865 in Charleston, SC to honor 257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass gr...ave in a Confederate prison camp. They dug up the bodies and worked for 2 weeks to give them a proper burial as gratitude for fighting for their freedom. They then held a parade of 10,000 people led by 2,800 Black children where they marched, sang and celebrated.

Thanks to Abstrakt Goldsmith for this nugget of history that most of us never learned in school.