What? No Labor Day remembrances recorded?

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Fyrefox

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The American observance of Labor Day is a strange kind of holiday, rightfully honoring American laborers and the labor movement but obscured as kind of an unofficial “end of summer” fling. It’s largely celebrated as an occasion to have one last picnic or perhaps one last dip in the pool before the more serious business of the fall season arrives, and people go back to school or work…

What did or do you do for Labor Day, or is it a big nothing-burger? 🤔

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Many of the benefits and protections that we enjoy, take for granted, today came out of the struggle to organize labor. Labor Day had much stronger meaning for those workers directly involved in that struggle.
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Sadly, we’ve become such a diverse and fractured society that most of our legal holidays have little meaning to many.

Sometimes I think that we should abandon the recognized government holidays and give workers11 days a year to observe the things that have meaning to them and their families.🤔
 
To be honest I have a lingering resentment against Labor Day because I always had to start the school year on the Tuesday after. So I never really enjoyed the weekend. While I appreciate the significance of the day it is on the bottom of my personal list as far as holiday's go . I guess I have not gotten rid of that resentment from my youth .
 
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