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Originally Posted by pylon
Thank you. It is nice to see there is still some younger people that actually understand the monumental sacrifices this day symbolizes.
To this day, it boggles my mind the time and respect we give to a magic flying fat man, and an anthropomorphic rabbit that delivers chocolate, fictional fantasy characters. Yet we have these amazing veterans, that saw horrors we could never imagine in our lifetimes, and their sacrifice is boiled down to a furniture sale, or a binge drinking event to a huge segment of the population.
It is sad. Even the company I work for is guilty, and I now have burn off a vacation day every year, so I can attend a ceremony and pay my respect, since they have oped to trade remembrance day on our holiday schedule, for the oh so important Boxing Day. It's pathetic.
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I still leave the office in the morning to go to the ceremony at Central Memorial Park every year even though my office slides the day off over to the xmas week... brutal.
And I don't see what is controversial about the ad - I am pretty sure there is not one person out there that would disagree that the ad is done in poor taste, is brutally disrespectful and is completely off the mark.