Agreed, But we can’t get chaffed the use of the term Happy My thinking is that it is a Generic form of a salutation, and that people would use it without malice. Yes, observed is the correct term but I would like to think that the people using the term “Happy” are concerned about our military personnel, and their personal sacrifices they make for our great country.
I see your point, but would that not be Veterans Day???
I also agree it is not something to get worked up about. As for me, I’ll be going to morning Mass and pray for all those that have given their lives for us but especially those I had the honor to know and served with. God bless them all.
“Happy Memorial Day” has always struck me as oddly dissonant. Reflective, grateful, serious & sober better describe most people’s actual feelings.
I reminds me of the suddenly-popular, “Thank you for your service,” that I never heard before just a couple of years ago. I was wished this just today by a serious, intelligent, well-meaning Freeper — and I do thank him for his thought, offered sincerely.
You see, although I was in the Army, and did “participate” in Vietnam, so very many others gave so very much more, and faced so very much more challenge, difficulty, and pain than I did. I’m just not in their class. I didn’t live their experience. I was a rear-echelon twit in a radio station, and I got to go home aand marry my girl, and have 42 years of happiness with her.
So, it’s far more appropriate to thank them than to thank me. Their gifts to this country way outstrip mine.
Even so, and having said all that, you’re welcome.
May we always have enough patriots to keep our Liberty,
and may God Bless the United States Of America.