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Originally Posted by Stealhead
Call me crazy but I find all these "Memorial Day" sales that many stores have to be very disrespectful.
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And yet it's an age-old and time-honored American tradition. I have a book called
Who Were The Founding Fathers? Despite the title it's not a look at the men themselves, but a peek at how they saw themselves, and how the next generation saw them, and the next, right up through our own time.
And what is the relevance, you ask? Only this. I used to complain about Fourth-of-July sales. Then, from this book, I found that the boarding house in which Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence had within fifty years become the home of a men's clothier. On July 4, 1826, the same day Jefferson and Adams both died, they had what may well have been the first holiday sale. They placed an ad in a local Philadelphia newspaper starting with "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a man to purchase a new suit of clothes..."
Disrespectful? Sure, but decidedly funny. It's easy to waste time and energy hating people for being mercenary, but it's never going to stop, so why bother?