How did this happen? Let's face it, Donut Day is a holiday honoring the overweight, morally bankrupt children of the men who stormed Normandy, France all of those seventy years ago.
Somewhere along the way we have lost our way. Then we were a nation that would face down evil. As the world sat on its hands all those years ago and watched the systematic extermination of Jews, gypsies, poles, and other "inferior" races the German high command found unacceptable, America and England finally stood up under the leadership of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt.They stood up against a regime of oppression.
I hate to question some of our Hallmark and promotional holidays, but what gives? I realize it is the first Friday in June, but boys and girls in marketing you should have thought this one through a little better. That means it is possible to interact with this day every few years.
I wonder how many donuts the GIs had as they stormed off their amphibious assault ships to face down German MG42s and Panzershrecks. Today is the 70th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, not Donut Day. Today is a day to find an elderly veteran and buy him a cup of coffee (if he will take it) and say thank you, not fill your stomach with fat, sugary dough.
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