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Google Ignores Veteran's Day
Google ^ | November 11 | Me

Posted on 11/11/2006 12:24:05 PM PST by PghBaldy

Google, which frequently celebrates minor holidays like Halloween with special changes to their trademark, today ignored Veteran's Day. They have noted Halloween, Google's 8th Anniversary, Persian New Year, Martin Luther King Day & the World Cup, among other holidays this year. Veteran's Day is meaningless to them.


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To: Lokibob

Today is Veteran's Day. Nov. 11. Used to be Armistice Day. Then changed to Vet's Day on different day. Then officially moved back to the date of Armistice Day. 11-11.

Yesterday was the Marine Corp birthday. 231 years.

Semper Fi


41 posted on 11/11/2006 1:14:05 PM PST by Marmolade
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To: PghBaldy
Wonder how soon they will celebrate Marx's, Lennin's or Mao's Birthday...


42 posted on 11/11/2006 1:15:38 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: PghBaldy

They're demoncrats, what do you expect?


43 posted on 11/11/2006 1:16:38 PM PST by dmw (Aren't you glad you use common sense, don't you wish everybody did?)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Time to dump Google.


44 posted on 11/11/2006 1:17:03 PM PST by John Carey
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To: MDspinboyredux

Thanks for the tip!!!
Now I can vet companies I work for or buy from!
YES!


45 posted on 11/11/2006 1:25:48 PM PST by ct_libertarian (New teams on the field? GAME ON!)
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To: PghBaldy

I can't find any contact info on the Google site. No simple email address to which I can write to complain.

Plenty of info for those who want to advertise though.


46 posted on 11/11/2006 1:26:35 PM PST by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: PghBaldy; All

Anybody know where I can find the picture of the sailor kissing the nurse, with all the 'Rats in the background?


47 posted on 11/11/2006 1:29:12 PM PST by nralife
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To: PghBaldy

The Google boys are sick moonbats.


48 posted on 11/11/2006 1:30:45 PM PST by steelyourfaith
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To: PghBaldy

Yahoo.com has nothing either.


49 posted on 11/11/2006 1:37:58 PM PST by US Navy guy
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To: TET1968

Tet1968 (and yes, I do remember it), I have a book to recommend to you which may add perspective, Geoff Dyer's "The Missing of the Somme" (1994). It's not so much about the First World War as it is about the function of memory, and how that changes over time.

First, he talks about presumptive memory, how one will wish to be remembered in the future (Rupert Brooke's forward looking "If I should die, think only this of me..."); then comes current, living memory, and the rituals which accompany it (ie., how the British nation observed the two-minute silence very seriously right after the war). Then, as time moves on, memory inevitably becomes second or third hand, as time inevitably breaks it down - statues are seen, rituals are sometimes observed, but people forget why if they do not have the first-hand memory.

It's a very interesting book.


50 posted on 11/11/2006 1:38:32 PM PST by linda_22003
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To: CremeSaver

Yup. Just checked both google and Dogpile. I remember the Halloween tribute on google. No longer will I be googling, I'm Dogpiling from now on.


51 posted on 11/11/2006 1:38:44 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: PghBaldy

Google did just relocate to Ann Arbor. Should tell you something.


52 posted on 11/11/2006 1:40:38 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: DigitalVideoDude

There's a postal address and phone and fax numbers, but as you say no email address.

To be honest I see their point in no longer publishing an email address - I guess they are were swamped with emails moaning about this or that, my site is ranked lower than somebody else's, they favour this politician over that, Christmas logos, a logo for this but not a logo for that etc etc

By having people stump up the cost of a stamp or the cost of a call, they are at least weeding out those who like complaining just for the sake of it. For this type of person, email is a dream come true.


53 posted on 11/11/2006 1:45:09 PM PST by StevieJ
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To: PghBaldy
Here we go again with the Google bashing.

Who really cares if they don't support our veterans. Should all websites have some type of graphic on their homepage showing support for our veterans?

This is simply petty.

54 posted on 11/11/2006 1:48:47 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Why can't Republicans stand up to Democrats like they do to terrorists?)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Do you use the toolbar from ask.com??


55 posted on 11/11/2006 1:51:08 PM PST by perfect stranger (Tagline tomorrow, tagline yesterday, but no tagline today.)
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To: Lokibob
We all realize that today is Veterans day, but the official holiday is Monday. This might be the reason. Not making excuses, but.....

They're not going to have anything about Veteran's Day on Monday either, just like FReepers were waiting like Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin hoping that Google would have something on the official Memorial Day.

Veteran's Day is celebrated and remembered by millions of Americans who have not forgotten the sacrifices made by our troops. If some left-wing website doesn't celebrate it with some cheesy cartoon graphic, who cares?

56 posted on 11/11/2006 1:53:55 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Why can't Republicans stand up to Democrats like they do to terrorists?)
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To: perfect stranger

No, but it is one of the search engines I have set up in Firefox.


57 posted on 11/11/2006 1:54:16 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper
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To: PghBaldy

As we know. Google is liberals and liberals hate our military. We hate Google.


58 posted on 11/11/2006 1:57:57 PM PST by dforest (be careful you don't become what you hate the most)
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To: SteveMcKing

how?


59 posted on 11/11/2006 2:01:32 PM PST by dcrider182 (Col. Dean R. Hiatt.. WWII Hero. LC.Cpl. Brad Shuder. 9-11 Hero.. you are both loved and missed)
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To: PghBaldy

They didn't commemorate 9/11.


60 posted on 11/11/2006 2:13:21 PM PST by somerville
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