QotD: Memorial
Posted May 30th, 2005 @ 09:45am by Erik J. Barzeski
Question: How do you celebrate Memorial Day?
My Answer: I typically don't. This year I'll be celebrating with Carey's family, though. It'll be kinda nifty to do the traditional picnic thing. The weather is certainly nice enough for it.
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Posted 30 May 2005 at 10:00am #
As per the last half-dozen years, I'm spending it at the Annual Memorial Day Detroit Techno festival, never called the same thing twice.
Posted 30 May 2005 at 10:32am #
When traditional falls on celebrated, by blowing out lots of metaphorical candles.
And in years like this year, by privately lamenting how shamefully our government treats those who have sacrificed so much for their country...
Posted 30 May 2005 at 1:21pm #
Actually, I was corrected by my American girlfriend, that one should not "celebrate" Memorial Day, as it should be a solemn day.
That said, I think my misstep is not unreasonable as the day seems to have been trivialized and has become a great oppotunity for Memorial Day Sales, etc. I guess that's the problem when you create a long weekend durting a time of year with great weather (hard not to be solemn on November 11th in Canada; the weather is generally awful!).
Posted 30 May 2005 at 4:05pm #
I'm not American, so I usually find out that it's Memorial Day because my RSS unread feeds dries up around 12 o'clock. Haha... almost all content comes from the USA.