I’m Skipping the Sales on Memorial Day
Here’s the thing. I really don’t get the point of Memorial Day in this country. We are typically off from work, unless we work in an industry that sells something that can go on sale on Memorial Day of course.
We cook out, camp out and shop our hearts out. What we don’t seem to do is honor any of the people who sacrificed their lives for our country or their families either, for that matter.
I think Memorial Day needs to be an IN YOUR FACE sort of holiday. As in, PEOPLE DIE IN WARS, AND WE ARE GOING TO TAKE AN ENTIRE DAY OFF FROM WORK TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS SAD, SAD FACT.
If we can’t do that, then the heck with it. We can call the holiday something else, like National Day of Shopping. Let’s be honest with ourselves, at the very least.
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True.
But then again, they do that to every holiday. After all, there are no holidays that are solely designed for sales purposes. (Okay, maybe if you count black friday)
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I think there’s some interesting facet of American culture tied up in this, perhaps linked to those who seem to believe that those Coalition soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan somehow died fighting for ‘our freedom’. It’s some fundamental failure to understand the benefits of living in our nations and what it takes to maintain those benefits.
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We should have Memorial Day be like Veterans’ Day–it has to fall on May 30th (traditional Mem. Day and my mom’s birthday) no matter what day of the week it turns out to be. People pay little attention to the reason for a three day weekend.
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