make fast

tomyhusband:

we won’t remember a thing.

I realize that the site I’m reading is comedy, but it’s tasteless to broadcast stuff like this. We get the day off in order to honor the memories of those who were lost (Veterans Day is that other one where we honor those who are still with us), and the whole idea in the beginning was to spend the day placing flowers on the graves of service members. You may think you don’t know anyone who served, but it’s a pretty safe bet that if you are over the age of 20, you at least have or had two grandfathers who did some type of service, and potentially even two grandmothers who served as well. If they are still here with us, then you can bet a lot of their buddies who served aren’t; if they aren’t with us, then they probably have a headstone you could visit.

I’m not stupid; I know everyone isn’t going to drop their plans tomorrow in order to do something selfless, but if you plan to spend the weekend celebrating the creation of the hamburger or the revolutions in beer packaging that gave us a lower “glug factor”, maybe you should at least keep it off the internet. I’m not saying everyone should spend the entire weekend remembering as many service members as they can, as soldierporn has committed to doing.  I’m just saying that comedy doesn’t necessitate tastelessness.