I find myself angry at yet again references to "Happy Memorial Day". I blogged about this before, but I feel it stands repeating. Memorial Day is not, I repeat NOT a HAPPY Holiday. It's not a holiday at all. It's a day of solemn remembrance for our war dead, not another trashy excuse for a shopping spree. I am disgusted by retailers and customers alike reducing something that should be at the very least observed into the "start of summer" and "let's go shopping WOO HOO!". I received an email from Andrew Toyota in Milwaukee hoping I am "enjoying my memorial day". Two things are wrong with this statement. How does one "enjoy" a day that reminds me of my WWII veteran father, who passed away in Oct of 2002? Or the hundreds of thousands of war dead around the county and buried on foreign soil? What makes retailers think I "enjoy" Memorial Day? And the second thing wrong? They didn't capitalize Memorial Day. So, not only do they have absolutely no respect for the men and women who died in the service of OUR country, but they can't even use proper punctuation and grammar?
The gloves are off. The next time I get wished a "happy Memorial Day", I will not hesitate to tell the person why, exactly, they are an idiot. And maybe suggest they look up the word Memorial in the dictionary. I'm done with being nice about this. There is a reason why Taps is played at the observances and cemeteries, and it's not to signal the start of the shopping summer season.
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