There's a good article on the origins of the holiday here.
(It had nothing to do with picnics.)
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. George McGovern
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I usually shy away from labels for precisely the reasons you've just mentioned, but in the truest sense of the terms I consider myself a 'Marxist Feminist.'
Of course Reagan had much to do with the ignorance and fear mongering that exists today, but a lot of it is also a hangover from the WWII era.
Yikes.
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