3 Responses to “Google decides to give Memorial Day a miss”

1. Thor Schrock Says:
   May 27th, 2008 at 2:06 am     +0

   It is just awful that Google will honor such BS as the Persian New Year but not America’s fallen heroes.  I paid a guy on Rentacoder to make a logo for Google to use.  I put it on my blog, but something tells me they will not be making any changes anytime soon.

2. Hypatia Says:
   May 28th, 2008 at 10:38 am     +0

   Well since Google is now global - they will need to honour ANZAC’s, Memorial day UK (11th Nov) and many others - and where do you stop it - any national holiday, independence day or religious holiday…. by all means honour your dead, the dead of any country suffering a natural disaster or even civil unrest… but remember not everyone in the world is really that interested!

3. Mark O'Neill Says:
   May 28th, 2008 at 10:58 am     +0

   I’m not suggesting that EVERY holiday in the whole world be observed but there are some major holidays that should be observed and the end of the world wars are internationally acknowledged to be one of them - the US Memorial Day and the UK Remembrance Day.    But there are many more that we can toss to one side.  I think we can safely assume that International Year of the Badger can be safely left out.

   And anyone in the world “not interested” in stopping for a moment to pay tribute to those who died is pretty heartless!     That’s why I was very taken aback that Google found it necessary to pay tribute to Walter Gropius but not to the countless soldiers who died on countless battlefields.

   Thanks for commenting.
   

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