SotD: Veteran’s Day, if you can keep it
Posted by Mike Peterson
November 11, 2020
It’s Veteran’s Day, as Michael Ramirez (Creators) points out.
Most years on November 11, the comics pages are flooded with little kids saluting tombstones and suchlike, but there weren’t that many this year.
From a creative point of view, it’s not much of a loss because they aren’t generally very good and don’t stand out often, one from another.
And I suppose the paucity of Veteran’s Day cartoons is in keeping with the fact that we don’t notice it IRL either. Since I live half a block from the village green, I’ll hear a few bugles and maybe a rifle salute at noon, but, unless you work at a bank or at the post office, you won’t get the day off.
Not only does this country have fewer holidays than most other nations, but we don’t really observe the ones we have, except for Christmas and Thanksgiving.
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2020/11/11/csotd-veterans-day-if-you-can-keep-it/
