"KØHB" wrote in message
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"Kim" wrote

For me, Memorial Day is more than honoring those who have died.

At the risk of appearing to be an unsensitive old galoot, and at the
further risk of alienating the 2 YL's who want to honor Rosie the Riveter
on Memorial day, I must strenuously disagree.


You won't alienate me unless you stoop to the disgusting tactics of the
likes of Todd. I seriously doubt that you would ever fall to such depths.

There are a lot of well-deserved "days" to honor veterans and servicemen
in general, and those others out of uniform who labored "in the cause",
but Memorial Day is NOT that day.


There is no day to honor those not in uniform who gave all they could to
support the soldiers. I've searched every holiday list I can find and there
is nothing. It harms no one for me to choose to include those people in my
thoughts.

Memorial Day (originally called "Decoration Day" because the main activity
wasn't an extra Monday off for a barbeque in the back yard, but rather
decorating grave sites) was established specifically to remember those
honored comrades in arms who LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES for us. Let's never
dilute that sacred honor by turning Memorial Day into another "feel good
day" for every other patriotic group who wants to tag along on their
glorious sacrifice.


I do not believe it dilutes their sacred honor.

The rest of us have Veterans Day/Armistice Day, Labor Day, Armed Forces
Day, Navy Day, etc. to recognize our contributions. Can we be content
with that?


None of these honor the civilian contributions to support the soldiers.
Labor Day has nothing whatsoever to do with honor those who supported our
soldiers. Instead it was proposed in the 1880s by the labor unions and
adopted as a way to recognize the everyday worker for their contributions to
the economy and society.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE