What bothers me about Memorial Day is that it doesn’t memorialize anything specific. Instead of having a day of remembrance for all major wars, the US has one that doesn’t fall on any particular anniversary. That’s infuriating because there’s both May 8 (Victory in Europe Day) and May 9 (end of the Civil War) in the same month that could be used. Hell, Veterans’ Day is an appropriation of Armistice Day (end of WWI) that I find to be in poor taste. I’m not saying there shouldn’t be a Veterans’ or Memorial Day, but that we need to first commemorate specific events and tragedies before we can generalize.