What Date Will the Fourth of July Be?

If a holiday's date has been the same for more than thirty years, which is longer than the lifespan of some posters here- and far older than the emotional age of some posters here- it is safe to say that the writer made an error.

Chilcoot's error was in saying "always". Leave it to LVA posters to cavil about that. Okay, it's also true that nobody, or virtually nobody, refers to the holiday as "the eleventh of November".

During Richard Nixon's admin, Congress changed several holidays to Mondays. This act annoyed me because I felt that if an event's specific date is known, the event should be honored on that date. However, since the historical event originally honored by what is now Veterans Day was an armistice signed in 1918 which is vague or unknown to the majority of American high school students, and the holiday had over time taken on wider significance, having Veterans Day as a Monday holiday made more sense than celebrating George Washington's birthday on the wrong date, whatever calendar one chooses to use. According to Wikipedia, Presidents' Day was considered but didn't get out of committee that year.

I do not know whether or not "Presidents' Day" contains an official apostrophe. Cases can be made for yes and no. To use one makes grammatical sense. The only spelling that makes no sense is "President's" because it is singular and the day honors more than one president.

How's that for topic drift?

When DonDiego was still a working man, he was always thankful that George Washington had been born on a Monday, . . . every year.

I am guessing that DD did not get Veterans Day off. Had DonDiego labored in a bank or government office, he might have wished the same for Veterans Day.

DonDiego may have wished it, . . . but it is unlikely all veterans were born on a single day of the week, as George Washington apparently was.

7-4-2012

lol

True. Chances are identical for birthdays of one person or a million persons to occur on the same weekday annually, yet an individual is born on just one day of the week.

The days of the week upon which veterans' birthdays occur annually or the days of the week on which veterans were born might matter to their loved ones but are irrelevant to the placement of the holiday because Veterans Day does not honor birthdays.

At the risk of slipping deeper into irrelevance, I wonder if every poster in LAVland knows the day of the week on which he or she was born. Photographic evidence to the contrary, my mother assures me I am Monday's child.

I once saw a sign at a bank... "We will be close on July 4th to observe the holiday the 4th of July."

True story kids.