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"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx

Liberals have tried more and more to make this day in to a day of activisim. Its sad really. And americans dont respect our vets as much as they used to. Colleges bann ROTC, Liberals demostrate in front of recruiting stations, the new york times accuses our vets as becoming murderers, A washington state paper ran a fake tape of our troops rapeing an Iraqi girl, Democrats despeeratly try to block absontee ballots that came in from Iraq, The speaker of the house refuses to speak to the "vets for victory" organisation, Harry reid said that the war is lost while our troops are fighting it, John Murtha called innocent marines murderers, Columbia university let a man speak at their college while he was killing our troops in Iraq, liberal protestors burn american flags while wearing che guvera t shirts and orange jump suits as sympothy for our detained enemys, and I can go all day but you get my point!

Only allowing veterans to take that day off won't spread awareness. Y0ou might think that somehow this is an incentive to encourage more military enlistment, but it would not work. The culture needs to rediscover the honor associated with the militaries of the past in order for Veteran's Day to rise in status.

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Voting for McCain just because he is Republican is just like voting for a Killer Whale just because he is also called a whale.

Voting for Obama is like voting for a flounder because he is really flat, but surrounds himself with sand to make himself look more interesting.

I wasn't doing it to spread awareness, I was doing it because I want a day off with pay!

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"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx

My mistake for thinking you were vitruous. Sorry. I'll never do it again.

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Voting for McCain just because he is Republican is just like voting for a Killer Whale just because he is also called a whale.

Voting for Obama is like voting for a flounder because he is really flat, but surrounds himself with sand to make himself look more interesting.

Actually, that was meant tongue-in-cheek - sorry I didn't make that clear enough.

I think that on top of everything that we do and could do for the veterans of the armed services, that one day a year that they - and they alone - could have off from work as a token of this country's appreciation wouldn't be such a bad thing!

I don't think it would be of much use as a recruiting tool, but I do think that over time it could be used to raise awareness of veterans and veterans issues.

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"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx

Works for me.
However I would anticipate a non-Veteran suing for discrimination or something along those lines. It might create more derision rather than awareness.

Personally though, I think it's a good idea.