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Lest we forget
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, Billy wrote: In article , Charlie wrote: On Fri, 01 May 2009 17:47:54 -0700, Billy wrote: May 1, 1886 The Struggle for the Eight-Hour Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_Riot May Day parade and strikes In article , Charlie wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day Loyalty Day is observed on May 1 in the United States. It is a day set aside for the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States and for the recognition of the heritage of American freedom. The holiday was first observed in 1921[2] as "Americanization Day,"[3] and was intended to counterbalance the celebration of Labour Day on May Day (May 1), an internationally celebrated holiday which was perceived as communist. Loyalty Day is celebrated with parades and ceremonies in several U.S. communities, although many people in the United States remain unaware of it. Although a legal holiday, it is not a federal holiday, and is not commonly observed. It was made an official holiday by the U.S. Congress on July 18, 1958 (Public Law 85-529).[4][5] Following the passage of this law, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1, 1959 the first official observance of Loyalty Day. [6] --- I was one of the many who had never hear of this atrocity, a perfidious sham celebration to obscure class warfare, and what the workers of the world knew to be a true working person's victory. Workers of the world, who enjoy eight hour days, and forty hour weeks, owe the victim's of the Haymarket Massacre the debt to never forget their sacrifice. ----- I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air - that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. - H. L. Mencken -- - Billy "For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html |
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