Did anyone know it's Columbus Day?

[Failure]

I was shocked to find out today was Columbus Day. Shocked. :eek: I used to get off from school today. Now I didnt find out until I walked to the post office and it was closed for C Day. My university's stealing my holidays from me. grrr. :mad:

[Calhoun07]

Yup! And I have the day off from work, and I'm enjoying every minute of it! Being that I am so rarely home, that's what I'm doing today, just staying home, relaxing, popping in on the boards here and there, and enjoying a few good movies on DVD. Nice, peaceful, and I am not complaining!

[optimal321]

Yeah, i saw last night that it was going to be Columbus Day. And i don't get out of school either! But i do get out Friday for some reason...

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

I don't get off today-but I get off Wednsday...for parent-teacher conferences! :( Oh, that fact's going to spoil my mood that day...actually, I USE to get Columbus Day off when I went to public school...lousy private school getting to set its own rules... :mad: ;)

...ah, Columbus. He stumbles upon a continent ALREADY found by Native Americans AND Europeans (Vikings and possibly Irish) and he gets his own holiday?! :eek:

[batboy2001]

I knew it! I don't get the day off though.:(

[Vigo Sprax]

Why, of course I knew it was.

I don't have the day off and I go to a public school, but here in Idaho we get like zero days off for holidays...not even Martin Luther King. My sister and her husband also don't have the day off, they're teachers. I think most schools have done away with giving the day off for Columbus Day.

[Joe Tully]

Most people in Massachusetts have the day off. My cousin got married yesterday, I think that she picked that day so that everyone could have the next day off to recuperate and head back to their homes. My second cousin got married on Columbus Day weekend last year, too. Looks like a new family tradition.

[Calhoun07]

I wonder if they will ever make Sept 11 a national holiday, like Memorial Day?

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

SAID BY CALHOUN07: I wonder if they will ever make Sept 11 a national holiday, like Memorial Day?

I hope so in a way. It'd be an honor to the victims...yet just as in Luther King day, people may eventually take the day for granted...though maybe this day is the jolt we need to get people to not just celebrate these days just for getting a day off. At least that's what *I* think and hope for.

[Failure]

Originally posted by calhoun07
I wonder if they will ever make Sept 11 a national holiday, like Memorial Day?

I dont think they will, there's no holiday for Dec 7 is there? Or have I just been oblivious to another one? I remember there was a little memorial type thing on the 50th anniversary of d-day, but it doesnt happen every year does it?

[Calhoun07]

But Dec 7 CANNOT be compared to what happened on Sept 11, and I wish people would stop. They are nothing alike. One was an attack against a military base when it was sparsely manned, and another was an attack against citizens in the most densely populated city in America and thousands perished.

[Failure]

Originally posted by calhoun07
But Dec 7 CANNOT be compared to what happened on Sept 11, and I wish people would stop. They are nothing alike. One was an attack against a military base when it was sparsely manned, and another was an attack against citizens in the most densely populated city in America and thousands perished.

But in terms of holidays how many holidays are there for regular, normal people and how many holidays are there for military personnel?

I'm not comparing 12/7 to 9/11, I understand that they are different. One was an act of war, one was an unprovoked attack on innocent civilians. Yet, the effect of both events on the American psyche, I think are pretty similar. The initial shock and dismay growing into an increasing patrotic-ness. They're different, but they are still similar.

[Calhoun07]

I think there may be something done in rememberance of the victims. At the very least they should do something like the Vietnam wall. And I would disagree that they were normal people. The president awarded the congressional medal of honor to the people aboard the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania.

[Failure]

Originally posted by calhoun07
I think there may be something done in rememberance of the victims. At the very least they should do something like the Vietnam wall. And I would disagree that they were normal people. The president awarded the congressional medal of honor to the people aboard the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania.

Yeah I think they will probably do a remembrance each year for the victims. As far as holidays go, if the American public pushes for one, there will be one. At the same time I think it depends on how the war goes. If it goes well with no kinks and relatively quickly then I think there's a good chance a holiday could be named. If the war goes long and gets dragged down and becomes more difficult than what we expected, then the chances decrease. Don't ask me why they should correlate, its just a feeling I have.

As for the normal people comment, I just meant that they were normal non-military civilians, there were definitely some brave people who went above and beyond "normal" standards.

[Calhoun07]

If they do a holiday, I believe it would take an act of congress. That could take years, as we all know! After all, Mother's Day became a national holiday in what? The early 70's? Even tho people had been doing something on that day for their mohters for years. So I guess these things just take time.