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What has happened to the proper way to remember our National Days of Rememberance???? Already now for several days the advertisements for car dealerships / furniture stores / etc. Using Memorial Day / Veterans Day / etc. as a sales promotion to boost sales ...Sorry for feeling this way but as a US Army veteran it just rubs me the wrong way....... What say the other members of Sig forum?????? ...................... drill sgt. | ||
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You can honor veterans who gave the lives in service to our country. You can Memorial Day as an excuse to drive up business &/or go shopping. I don't see the two as being mutually exclusive. You can do both. The most commercialized holiday in N America is Christmas. Do Black Friday and all the other shopping & consumerism surrounding Christmas take away from commemorating the birth of Christ? Each of us can choose how we want to observe any given holiday up to not observing it at all. If you dislike the commercialization & capitalism surrounding a holiday, it's your prerogative to refrain from taking part in it. If others choose to... Well, those fallen veterans gave their lives for us to have that choice. | |||
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Not regarding commercialization but; I normally fly a 4x6 US flag on my flagpole. On Memorial Day I fly a 5x8 flag that I put up at sunrise at half staff raise it to full staff at noon. Then my wife and I go to Barrancas National Cemetery to visit my parents grave. The flags at the cemetery are still at half staff! I know it’s a minor thing but dang, it’s a national cemetery, and a well kept one at that. Can’t they have some people come out to raise the flags to full staff at noon? | |||
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Iron Chef---- I can agree with every thing you said and I do plan on attending local Memorial day services... We have US Army veteran license plates on the car / Display a 3ft X 5ft flag in front window of the house facing our street / wear Army veterans cap when I leave the house / whenever seeing a veteran out and about...No matter what branch they might have served in..... It irks me to see how people have forgotten how some of our freedoms were fought and payed for..... Let me get off of this soap box..... If I have ruffled any feathers i do say i am sorry........................................ drill sgt. | |||
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I will add that I have a small pet peeve w/ people who don't understand the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day. | |||
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Memorial day is always tough for my wife and I. We can't even go to memorial day parades. She lost her father to Vietnam and I lost a brother to Afghanistan. I live in an area with a large military presence and appreciate all the flags that are flown in honor of our fallen service members. A lot of people don't really differentiate between Memorial day and Veterans day but I always like to buy lunch on Veterans day for all the retired vets who work at my local range. | |||
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Veterans' Day did not exist until after I graduated from high school (1954). Prior to that time, November 11 was Armistice Day, a reminder of the end of World War 1. It was changed to Veterans' Day, to thank veterans for their service, during the first Eisenhower administration. November 11 remained Armistice Day in France, a national holiday (I was there in 1977 with a rental car that broke down and most businesses, including repair shops and many rental agencies, were closed). In 1968, the date was changed from November 11 to the last Monday in October in order to provide a three day weekend. Then, in 1975, President Ford signed a bill that would become effective in 1978, that moved Veterans' Day back to November 11. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Respectfully, I’d say yes. It makes me sick every year. I participate in zero of the commercialization. It’s disgusting. My mind is on Christ, like it always is, but more so, making sure I’m at Mass every week and you won’t see a tree around here, a fatman, gift wrapping, egg nog, and the rest of the bullshit. But ultimately you are right. It’s up to us to participate or not. I choose to NOT participate in any marketed part of a holiday, ever. It’s just another day. I don’t need July 4th to remind me to love my country. I don’t need Memorial Day to remind me of those who have fallen, who served, etc. These things are every day. Don’t need a Hallmark day for any of it. Bah humbug. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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I don’t have TV - we stream everything via a couple different ad-free services. I don’t use the radio, with music subscription services that let me download and curate playlists to my device. I also don’t work nor do i frequent places that advertise general things. I know with all of these things, i am fully enveloped in the capitalism of entertainment, both audio and video, yet I’m also strangely, entirely blissfully ignorant to advertising in the radio/commercial sense. ____________________________ While you may be able to get away with bottom shelf whiskey, stay the hell away from bottom shelf tequila. - FishOn | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ As a kid we had to go to school and the parents had the day off. When I moved to the South everything was open. That changed about ten years ago and most businesses were closed and had some kind of observance. | |||
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as it should be, on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/ | |||
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I will be closed (I own a business) but I will check emails, I will probably cook on the grill, wife will have us doing something in the yard or whatever, my Father served in the Army Reserve, my brother from another mother is in the Reserves and a Marine before that, so we will have something cooked on the grill, an adult beverage or 4, and a hopefully relaxing afternoon, https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/ | |||
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Commercialization of every holiday irks me, but I don’t see it changing. As an Air Force veteran, I’ll do what I do every year and participate in a couple of wreath laying ceremonies and remember those who have sacrificed all for us. “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” ― Ronald Reagan Retired old fart | |||
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I try to commemorate the day in an appropriate fashion. I usually read Kipling's "Tommy," and Shakespeare's St Crispin's Day speech in Henry V. Tommy isn't specifically about remembering the dead, but more about the eternal plight of soldiers in their community. Both, I think, recognize veteran's sacrifices. | |||
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I remember the ones we lost in my youth. In my mind they are still young men and I'm now an old guy. I don't dwell on the "why them and not...." I am just grateful for their sacrifice and try to honor them in my thoughts. We don't treat Memorial Day like a family holiday. It's a solemn time to honor and recall for us. Bob | |||
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Why don't we where poppies anymore? | |||
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Locally our VFW/American Legion still stands outside local Wal Marts(?) and other stores with the "poppies". in act they were out today passing out the poppies. nd make sure to stop and speak with the fellows and drop a healthy donation. ..................... drill sgt. | |||
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On Memorial Day we usually just hang out around the house . No shopping for mattresses or other such bullshit . | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I always thought it was poppies on Veterans Day. It is confusing. They don't even run the Indy 500 on Memorial day. | |||
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I did poppy donation duty in front of a local store, and recited a poem unique to my unit history and the names of all the guys we lost during my deployments. I don’t cry as hard as I used to, but it still hits me hard was it really 19 years ago? | |||
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