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[Alan Thompson]

as if your rude reply is worth an explanation, it's an american holiday 
to memorialize/commemorate our war veterans, specifically starting with 
those from our own civil war in 1865.  it had become a tradition to do 
this every year that eventually one of our presidents past signed it 
into a national holiday, sometime in the 1960s.  i'm sure the scope of 
the holiday has now been generalized to cover dead veterans and living 
alike for all of our wars since.

i would bet one of my big toe that many western european countries have 
a similar holiday, perhaps just more directly entitled, perhaps in 
response to some big wars of all the rampant colonialism and resultant 
wars, or one of the world wars, probably II.

you could have google'd your answer rather than being a jerk.

On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 10:08 AM, Joost van de Griek wrote:

> WTF is "Memorial Day"?