Posted on May 23, 2015
COL Charles Williams
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I personally get frustrated (hate it) when someone tells me happy memorial day; it started today. So, today, I corrected the first person to say that this year. Am I too uptight?

Memorial Day means something very different too us, than it does to most Americans; the other 99.55%.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/05/22/im-a-veteran-and-i-hate-happy-memorial-day-heres-why/
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MSgt George M.
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There was nothing happy about this.
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SPC Sarah Hamby
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What's happy about it? I usually respond to happy dead soldiers day to you too.
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GySgt Kenneth Pepper
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Damn!! Lighten up Francis.
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Amn TeiJae Taylor
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Would you not agree that many people expressed happiness on the day it was commissioned a holiday? No Memorial Day holiday vs Memorial Day Holiday? It made people happy that the day was set aside to remember those we've lost, not happy for the loss.
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SPC Sarah Hamby
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Amn TeiJae Taylor

No. That were the case we would say something other than happy Memorial Day. And it shouldn't be a 3-day weekend.
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Maj John Bell
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SPC Sarah Hamby - OK I'll bite. How would you have us spend our day on Memorial Day?
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