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Memorial Day 2025
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Memorial Day 2024
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Memorial Day 2023
“This is the day we pay homage to all those who didn’t come home. This is not Veteran’s Day; it’s not a celebration; it is a day of solemn contemplation over the cost of freedom.”
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May 2023 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of May for writers and readers
Get Caught Reading Month
Short Story Month
- May 1 – American Cheese Month; Arthritis Awareness Month; Asian American and Pacific Islander Month; Be Kind to Animals Month; Better Sleep Month; Couple Appreciation Day; Global Love Day; Indian Heritage Month; Jewish American Heritage Month; Labor History Month; May Day; Mental Health Awareness Month; Military Appreciation Month; Mother Goose Day; National Allergy and Asthma Awareness Month; National Anxiety Month; National Loyalty Day; National Meditation Month; National Pet Month; Phone In Sick Day
- May 1-7 – Hurricane Preparedness Week
- May 2 – International Harry Potter Day; Poem on Your Pillow Day
- May 2-8 – Children’s Book Week
- May 3 – World Press Freedom Day
- May 4 – Greenery Day; National Day of Reason (U.S.)
- May 4-10 – Red Cross Week
- May 5 – Nellie Bly’s Birthday; Cinco de Mayo (México); Europe Day; National Cartoonists Day; National Silence the Shame (about mental illness) Day; National Space Day
- May 6 – Sigmund Freud’s Birthday; Free Comic Book Day
- May 6-12 – National Nurses Week
- May 7 – Tchaikovsky’s Birthday; World Laughter Day
- May 7-13 – National Pet Week
- May 8 – Peter Benchley’s Birthday
- May 9 – J.M. Barrie’s Birthday; Peter Pan Day
- May 11 – Irving Berlin’s Birthday; Salvador Dali’s Birthday; Martha Graham’s Birthday; National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day
- May 12 – Limerick Day
- May 14 – Mother’s Day (U.S.)
- May 15-21 – Dementia Awareness Week
- May 16 – Love a Tree Day
- May 19 – Nora Ephron’s Birthday
- May 20 – Eliza Doolittle Day; Flower Day
- May 22 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Birthday; Sherlock Holmes Day
- May 25 – Robert Ludlum’s Birthday
- May 27 – Dashiell Hammett’s Birthday; Ian Fleming’s Birthday
- May 29 – Memorial Day (U.S.)
- May 30 – National Creativity Day
- May 31 –Walt Whitman’s Birthday
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Memorial Day 2022
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
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May 2022 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of May for writers and readers
- May 1 – Loyalty Day
- May 1 – Save the Rhino Day
- May 2 – Brothers and Sisters Day
- May 3 – Garden Meditation Day
- May 3 – Lumpy Rug Day
- May 4 – National Candied Orange Peel Day
- May 6 – Space Day
- May 7 – National Babysitters Day
- May 7 – National Train Day
- May 8 – Mother’s Day (U.S.)
- May 9 – Lost Sock Memorial Day
- May 11 – Twilight Zone Day
- May 13 – Blame Someone Else Day
- May 13 – Frog Jumping Day
- May 13 – Leprechaun Day
- May 14 – National Windmill Day
- May 15 – National Chocolate Chip Day
- May 16 – Love a Tree Day
- May 16 – National Sea Monkey Day
- May 23 – Lucky Penny Day
- May 24 – International Tiara Day
- May 25 – National Towel Day (UK)
- May 27 – Don’t Fry Friday
- May 27 – Memorial Day (U.S.)
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Memorial Day 2021
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
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Memorial Day 2014
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
Image courtesy Janet’s Cakes.
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Memorial Day 2013
“Well I won’t back down, no I won’t back down,
You can stand me up at the gates of hell,
But I won’t back down.
Gonna stand my ground, won’t be turned around,
And I’ll keep this world from draggin’ me down,
Gonna stand my ground and I won’t back down.
Hey baby, there ain’t no easy way out,
Hey I will stand my ground,
And I won’t back down.
Well I know what’s right, I got just one life,
In a world that keeps on pushin’ me around,
But I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
Hey baby there ain’t no easy way out,
Hey I will stand my ground,
And I won’t back down.
No, I won’t back down.”
– Tom Petty, “I Won’t Back Down.”
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Quote of the Day
“I think it’s interesting because I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words “heroes.” Why do I feel so [uncomfortable] about the word “hero?” I feel comfortable – uncomfortable – about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don’t want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that’s fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism: hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I’m wrong about that.”
– MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, on May 27, after speaking with a former Marine whose job it was to notify families of the death of soldiers.
Hayes eventually apologized for making such a crass statement the day before Memorial Day. And not a moment too soon! I don’t care how anyone feels. The word “hero” applies to a lot of people: firefighters, teachers, paramedics, police officers – and certainly our military personnel. The term definitely doesn’t apply to sports and entertainment celebrities, which I’m sure will piss off the NFL and fans of “The Hunger Games.” But, as always, I don’t care who I piss off with my opinions.
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