Or “National move to Canada” day. May as well link it to the original Loyalists.
Do we get May 1st off from work? Cause otherwise I will probably never think of Liberty Day ever again.
Dadgumit regniad kcin you tricked me.
Citizens of this great land.
Now, I,** WILLIAM J. CLINTON**, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim **May 1, 1998**, as **Loyalty Day**. I urge all Americans to recognize the heritage of American freedom, to honor the memory of those who have served and sacrificed in defense of that freedom, and to express our loyalty to our Nation through
appropriate patriotic programs, ceremonies, and activities. I also
call upon Government officials to display the flag of the United States in support of this national observance.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-second.
**WILLIAM J. CLINTON**
(My apologies President G W Bush, my loyalty to you, it seems, is vulnerable to the sinister misspeak of the liberal mind.)
But I still don’t like anything called “Loyalty Day”! 
Hey, how d’ya think I feel?! I wasted some perfectly good voodoo magic on this non-event.
Oh, well. At least I’m not the only American out there who’d never heard of “Loyalty Day.” Apparently there’s some kind of subconscious conspiracy to ignore stupid holidays. Case in point: according to whitetho’s link, May 1 is also “Americanism Day,” evidently as a sort of “double-Dutch fooey on you” to the dread forces of International Communism. On the other hand, maybe it’s simply good old-fashioned Yankee inclusiveness at work: you can celebrate if you’re a loyal American, or if you’re loyal but not American, or if you’re American but not particularly loyal. Everyone’s invited!
And I don’t think you owe any apology to old G.W., either. After all, the holiday celebrates loyalty to America, not to any specific elected official. For me, the concept of loyalty is embodied in the old quote by Carl Schurz:
Our country, right or wrong.
When right, to be kept right;
When wrong, to be put right.
So I consider Election Day to be the real Loyalty Day.
Like the vast majority of Federally-proclaimed “days”, we ignore it.
If we do end up remembering it, we will celebrate in the time-honored tradition of all other “days” that get some notice: Demand a day off from work and get thoroughly hammered on the alcohol delivery systems that suit our individual tastes.
We already have Independence Day, Veteran’s Day, and Memorial Day. Likewise, since Memorial Day is at the end of May, this “Loyalty Day” nonsense" will become yet another Federal “day” that will be ignored by all real Americans.
In Indiana, it will be considered an annoying distraction from the real meaning of the already extant national May holiday: The Indianapolis 500.
Heck, on some years, it could even interfere with “Track Opening Day”, a celebration of real import.
Here’s a kicker: JFK (that’s Jack the Zipper), designated May 1 as “Law Day”, where we are all to reflect on how wonderful it is to be “guided by the statutes of law”.
What a waste of body fluids.
Don’t you know that there are tramps out there who go without body fluids just so you can annoint a picture?
Won’t someone think of the hosebags?!?
I dunno… I think “Loyalty Day” would best be spent with a proletariat uprising against the Bushwahzee. 
[sub]Credit goes to Molly Ivins for coining “Bushwahzee”.[/sub]
Robin
For those who immediately jumped on Bush:
Every president since then has issued the same announcement that was linked to in the OP. Do a search on Loyalty Day and you’ll find this.
Must be up there with “National Cheese Day”. And I suppose the Bush-Bashers would find a reason to blame him for that, too.
So what are we supposed to be loyal to: “Tastes Great!” or “Less Filling!”?
Of course he’s done nothing wrong, doesn’t deserve our ire, and thus is always unjustly bashed.
:rolleyes:
Bird:
All I am talking about here is bashing Bush for something he has virtually nothing to do with. Are you defending that? If not, what’s your point in quoting my post?
Hey, my fault.
It wasnt deliberate trickery. I had no idea theyd all been doing it for 50 years. I roll my eyes at them all for this idiocy.
This still leads me to ask:
Was the original choice of May 1st deliberate?
Was the elimination of May 1st as Labor Day in the VERY country in which the events it commemorates occured deliberate?
Whats up with that? It smacks of 1984 no matter how harmless it is, and points to an ideological connection between government and anti-labor interests.
What does it matter if Labor Day in the US is in September and not May 1? This sounds like the world trying to be stupidly interested in American domestic affairs.
RK:
I’m taking a guess here, because I honestly don’t know, but think about it. 1958 was the hieght of the cold war. May 1st is not so much Labor Day (we celebrate that here in Sept) as it’s “International Workers Day”. A big celebration in the Communist countries. Is it any surprise that the US in the 50s wanted to distance itself from that event? This is the same decade that gave us “Under God” added to the pledge of allegiance. No surprise to me.
Just out of curiousity, does anyone remember when Loyalty Day was even *mentioned[/I} in the last twenty years previously? Is the attention being given to LD2003 a case of the White House giving it extraordinary attention, or just some bored nut soptlighting an obscure government proclamation for a cheap drive-by Bush bash?
(Bush-bashing is one thing, but unwarranted Bush-bashing is another)
So Im a “bored nut” now, huh?
I think I owned up properly when I said:
“It wasnt deliberate trickery. I had no idea theyd all been doing it for 50 years. I roll my eyes at them all for this idiocy.”
Not good enough for you, rjung?
I shouted rude names at a Frenchman.