What's the purpose of veterans day?

• sleeper

  

  Discuss.
• Curly J

  

  It's just a Hallmark Holiday like every Holiday.:rolleyes:
• sleeper

  

  Agreed. Its meaningless and a way for companies to offer free stuff(read: cheap advertising disguised as a good deed) to veterans.
• power i

  

  You serious, Clark?
• Curly J

  

  sleeper;967634 wrote:Discuss.

  sleeper;967640 wrote:Agreed. Its meaningless and a way for companies to offer free stuff(read: cheap advertising disguised as a good deed) to veterans.

  
• sleeper

  

  power i;967641 wrote:You serious, Clark?

  Yes. People thank the veterans all year round, do veterans actually care about a day dedicated to them?
• thavoice

  Sleeper has a long standing history on here of bashing military types.
  
  What is the purpose of Veteran's Day? To recognize and honor the Veterans of this great nation.
  
  It is just like any other holiday out there. Mothers/Fathers/grandparents etc etc etc day.
  
  
  
  Some companies such as Applebee's use it as a marketing ploy, no doubt about that, but exploiting holidays to hock ones own goods has been going on for decades and decades. There are sales for memorial day, christmas, july 4th, mothers day, fathers day, valentines day...the list is vast.
  People should be thankful each day for Jesus, our independance, our mothers, our fathers, our significant others.....
  
  
  So, sleeper, in yet another attempt to rip on the military I think many will see past your shallowness.
• justincredible

  

  sleeper;967648 wrote:Yes. People thank the veterans all year round, do veterans actually care about a day dedicated to them?

  People go to church every Sunday. Do we really need two days (Christmas and Easter) dedicated to Jesus?
• sleeper

  

  thavoice;967651 wrote:Sleeper has a long standing history on here of bashing military types.
  
  What is the purpose of Veteran's Day? To recognize and honor the Veterans of this great nation.
  
  It is just like any other holiday out there. Mothers/Fathers/grandparents etc etc etc day.
  
  
  
  Some companies such as Applebee's use it as a marketing ploy, no doubt about that, but exploiting holidays to hock ones own goods has been going on for decades and decades. There are sales for memorial day, christmas, july 4th...the list is vast.
  
  
  
  So, sleeper, in yet another attempt to rip on the military I think many will see past your shallowness.

  I don't bash military types, I bash the people who are overzealous in their praise for someone doing a job they signed up to do at fair market value. If they didn't get paid, then I would give them all the praise in the world. They are doing a job they signed up for, just like any other profession.
  
  So every other day we should not recognize these veterans? Noted.
• sleeper

  

  justincredible;967654 wrote:People go to church every Sunday. Do we really need two days (Christmas and Easter) dedicated to Jesus?

  +1
• SnotBubbles

  

  What's the purpose of celebrating anything then? Thanksgiving, Christmas, Independence Day....your birthday????
  
  We're thankful every day for being a nation, we are thankful baby jesus was born and died for our sins (every day), we celebrate our independence in everything we do....and we all know you were born and are extremely thankful for that.
• Skyhook79

  

  thavoice;967651 wrote:Sleeper has a long standing history on here of bashing military types.
  
  What is the purpose of Veteran's Day? To recognize and honor the Veterans of this great nation.
  
  It is just like any other holiday out there. Mothers/Fathers/grandparents etc etc etc day.
  
  
  
  Some companies such as Applebee's use it as a marketing ploy, no doubt about that, but exploiting holidays to hock ones own goods has been going on for decades and decades. There are sales for memorial day, christmas, july 4th...the list is vast.
  
  
  
  So, sleeper, in yet another attempt to rip on the military I think many will see past your shallowness.

  My son is a veteran and he told me one time it means a lot more to him when people thank him for his service on any other day other than Veterans Day. He feels they are doing it not as sincerely. Thats how he feels anyway but he may or may not be in the majority.
• sleeper

  

  SnotBubbles;967659 wrote:What's the purpose of celebrating anything then? Thanksgiving, Christmas, Independence Day....your birthday????
  
  We're thankful every day for being a nation, we are thankful baby jesus was born and died for our sins (every day), we celebrate our independence in everything we do....and we all know you were born and are extremely thankful for that.

  LOL @ baby jesus. I'm not thankful he was born and died for these magical little things called "sins", I'm dreadful that anyone made up the bible and all the fictional stories in it.
  
  You don't need a day for veterans, its a meaningless holiday. You should be thankful for people for do their jobs everyday, regardless of profession.
• Skyhook79

  

  justincredible;967654 wrote:People go to church every Sunday. Do we really need two days (Christmas and Easter) dedicated to Jesus?

  To be fair Easter always falls on a Sunday.
• SnotBubbles

  

  sleeper;967670 wrote:LOL @ baby jesus. I'm not thankful he was born and died for these magical little things called "sins", I'm dreadful that anyone made up the bible and all the fictional stories in it.
  
  You don't need a day for veterans, its a meaningless holiday. You should be thankful for people for do their jobs everyday, regardless of profession.

  
• justincredible

  

  Skyhook79;967672 wrote:To be fair Easter always falls on a Sunday.

  True.
• queencitybuckeye

  It's a day set aside to recognize those people who keep this country free to allow you to underachieve.
• SnotBubbles

  

  justincredible;967681 wrote:True.

  
• sleeper

  

  queencitybuckeye;967683 wrote:It's a day where set aside to recognize those people who keep this country free to allow you to underachieve.

  Ok cool. So my tax dollars are meaningless to keeping this country free. It's terrible logic that veterans are the only people keeping this country free. We should thank anyone and everyone who is employed because they keep America free.
  
  #logicofthemasses
• queencitybuckeye

  sleeper;967686 wrote:Ok cool. So my tax dollars are meaningless to keeping this country free. It's terrible logic that veterans are the only people keeping this country free. We should thank anyone and everyone who is employed because they keep America free.
  
  #logicofthemasses

  If there's anything in the world I'm sure of, it's that you are the 47%.
• sleeper

  

  queencitybuckeye;967689 wrote:If there's anything in the world I'm sure of, it's that you are the 47%.

  :rolleyes:
  
  My bank account and W2 form says otherwise.
• queencitybuckeye

  sleeper;967691 wrote::rolleyes:
  
  My bank account and W2 form says otherwise.

  Link?
• sleeper

  

  queencitybuckeye;967693 wrote:Link?

  Unfortunately, I'm not going to let the public take a look at my personal records.
• Con_Alma

  sleeper;967670 wrote:...
  You don't need a day for veterans, its a meaningless holiday. You should be thankful for people for do their jobs everyday, regardless of profession.

  It's not a need. It is a want by some folks. We want to have it and we do.
• SnotBubbles

  

  queencitybuckeye;967693 wrote:Link?

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_(number)