Death To Zombies

D-Day used to be celebrated as a holiday.  But it’s sort of been encompassed by Memorial Day recently.

But I’ve recently been encompassed by Tom Hodgkinsen’s attitudes toward life.  That the protestant work ethic and capitalistic work needs have overrun our need for festivals.  But the needs of work schedules has consolidated many holidays and made them mainly occur on weekends.  D-Day remembrance is something that remains constant with the day that the event actually occurred on.  So with that in mind I’ve plotted out many ancient holidays onto my calendar and plan to celebrate them.  Tom publishes a periodical called The Idler at http://idler.co.uk/ and I encourage you to take a look at the works there.  It’s not information for those who are addicted to hard work and furthering your careers.  It’s more a plea for you to find your own life and enjoy it thoroughly.  He’s not a bachelor like me and has a wife and children.  They live their lives simply and peacefully along anarchistic permaculture lines.

But I’m not really a religious sort of fellow, so I’m at a loss for the sort of holidays to celebrate more often as Tom encourages.  I certainly don’t like war, despite being a veteran, but I certainly identify with the comraderie that such endeavours tend to create.  So today I will celebrate D-Day by watching some old war films and drinking a bit more than usual.  I think I’ll watch The Big Red One, The Longest Day and Where Eagles Dare.  I’ll remember the sacrifice of fine warriors who swept out of tiny launch boats that weren’t much more than iron welded together with a few outboard motors slapped onto them.  Then the men assaulted a well defended beach, taking enormous casualties, and still managed to punch holes in those nazi bastards lines and set up a means for us to kill that son of a bitch Hitler.  I’ll remember the men and women I served with and especially those who have dedicated their entire careers to serving our nation.

I hope you’ll find time in your day to think about the sacrifices that many nations made on June 6th to help secure our world from Nazis and their plan to make us all a land of plain vanilla people who worked hard, weren’t gay, didn’t dissent and were boring as fuck.  You are not a cog in the machine, you are free and take today as an opportunity to express that!