Please Stop Honoring Veterans on Memorial Day--a Request From My Veteran Husband

Monday is an anniversary, celebrations in the United States include children through barbecue, music festival, sprinkler. All these traditions are wonderful. But my husband, a veteran, has a claim: Do not consider Memorial Day as a day commemorating the army currently serving in the army. For them, this is not a day. As the word "memorial" tells us, this is a day to celebrate and celebrate those who are not at our expense at the expense of ourselves in battle.

Why is this related? Before I watched TV with my husband 's Bill (Vietnamese veteran) I did not think about this. News from the station reported to the audience "to celebrate our troops on anniversary," his reaction was loud and negative. "When I consider an anniversary as a veteran's day, I hate it as a day to support our troops," he said.

My colleague at Inc.com, Bill Murphy, provided a good guide to understand the differences between veterans' days and anniversaries. Let's consider the history of their vacation. In commemoration of the Armistice Agreement signed on November 11, 1918, the First World War was officially ended. The war was optimistically called "a war that ended all wars", and its name proved incredibly incorrect. Veteran's Day is also a day of appreciation and respect for those serving in the army. If you meet Bill on 11th November, please be grateful for his service.

Anniversary is another matter. It dates back to the civil war where 620 thousand soldiers who were unimaginable were killed. From a certain point of view, this is about 19,000 people living in Baltimore today and the number of dead is enough to force the establishment of a country cemetery. This holiday was once called the day of decoration, because many people spend their days placing decorations and flags in the tombs of corrupt soldiers. The name changed in 1971 probably because of the many failures of the Bill War, the Vietnam War could not be brought back and could not decorate the grave.

When I asked Bill how to celebrate living soldiers and veterans on anniversary, his answer was 58,220 who died in that war due to Wall Street in Washington DC, Vietnam Memorial The name of the soldier was carved. To a long and painful list

"I know so many people," he said. "Children, I went to high school with the kids who just wanted to go to the university, the kids did not turn 20." He did not say that, but he said that did not. He is not lucky, not lucky.

All men and women who died in Vietnam and all wars have no opportunity to have children, to be old with their spouse, or to have a career. What they have is their name on the wall, another monument such as it, and the triangular folding flag of their family.

So please continue to appreciate our veterans and support our army every other day. To celebrate and celebrate people who have never had opportunities to become veterans by preserving memorial days. They and their loved ones will depart for four days a year.

Veteran's Day is a tribute to veterans of the US military. Unlike an anniversary commemorating a service person who died in a military duty, the veterans 'day is the time of the citizens' compliments, especially for living veterans who are still in us. But in order to completely accept this vacation spirit it is necessary to think about how society sees its service members and veterans' communities and how it is treated and supported not. According to the US Transgender Study in 2015, the number of American volunteers of transgender is about twice the total population of the United States, 15% of which are veterans (8% of the total population). With such numbers, we can not say that we will take care of all service personnel and veterans unless we take care of cross-servicers and veterans.

Monday is an anniversary, celebrations in the United States include children through barbecue, music festival, sprinkler. All these traditions are wonderful. But my husband, a veteran, has a request. For them, this is not a day. As the word "memorial" tells us, this is a day commemorating and commemorating those who died in battle and are no longer in us. Why is this related? Before I watched TV with my husband 's Bill (Vietnamese veteran) I did not think about this. News from the station reported to the audience "to celebrate our troops on anniversary," his reaction was loud and negative. "When I consider an anniversary as a veteran's day, I hate it as a day to support our troops," he said.