[OT] Memorial Day

[Simon Meyer]

Hey go easy on him.

Not everyone on this list in a US citizen.
And since when did the abbreviation WTF become 'strictly an American 
term'?

Be careful with language - on this medium, it's all we have,

Simon



On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 07:57  PM, Alan Thompson wrote:

> 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: