White House Drops Plan To Rename Veterans Day

Military.com reports:

The White House has backed off President Donald Trump’s stunning social media proposal to change the name of Veterans Day to “Victory Day for World War I” and will settle for keeping the name while adding a proclamation hailing American victory in World War I.

The White House will also go with a victory proclamation rather than a name change — at least in the U.S. — for V-E Day, or Victory in Europe Day, which is observed every May 8 in Europe and May 9 in Russia to mark Nazi Germany’s surrender to the allies in World War II.

The argument could be made that victory for World War II on May 8, 1945, was way off the mark since the war in the Pacific raged on and did not end until the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought about Japan’s official surrender on Sept. 2, 1945.

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Trump tried to hijack Veterans Day and rename it “Victory Day.” Veterans groups pushed back hard—and the White House folded.

A draft-dodging coward doesn’t get to redefine a day he never earned.

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