So, today’s Veterans’ Day. Okay…but instead of not getting mail today, we didn’t get it yesterday or today. Same for libraries (closed both days) and schools (exc. Sophia’s, thank goodness.) Since when do we celebrate national holidays on Tuesdays? I mean, except for July 4 (sacrosanct) and Thanksgiving (picked as a particular Thursday of the month, not a special day), isn’t every other holiday usually celebrated on the Monday, so as not to screw up the workweek? Have I simply napped through previous mid-week Veterans’ Days? Or is this year’s celebration some kind of sneaky way of shutting down the government for 4 days in a row?
We got mail in Monday. (Lots of it.) And most schools were open Monday, as was my bank. I think you fell into a black hole for a day. 🙂
Yah, around here most places celebrated veterans day on the 11th only. But then the district where I’m teaching this semester celebrated on the 10th.
Veterans Day is only supposed to be observed on November 11…no matter what day it falls on. I do know that some places will also be closed on the Friday or Monday if it’s on a weekend, but Veterans’ day was originally designed to honor the end of World War I when the armistice was signed on November 11 at 11 am…on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month…
Which absolutely does not account for anything being closed on Monday this year!
>I think you fell into a black hole for a day.
That very well could be. It wouldn’t be the first time.
Why do I have zero memories of Veterans Day being celebrated on the 11th proper? That is so weird.
We had the same weirdness here in Canada this week, with our Remembrance Day being on Tuesday. My spouse and I think that the legacy of our current Prime Minister (retiring any day now) should be that he passes a law something like this: “If the holiday falls on the Tuesday, then the Canadian people should also get the Monday off.”
Most of them seem to be taking it off anyway.
It might help that, for the past three years, Nov. 11th has fallen on Monday, Sunday, and Saturday. So this is the first time in awhile that it hasn’t been on a more convenient day of the week.