Yep, it's that time of the year when I wake up and realize that I won't be getting any mail because Rhode Island celebrates this controversial holiday. Thankfully it also means that I will get to hang out with Octo and the gang in CT, where he is currently having his annual family reunion. Thanks, VJ Day!
From Wikipedia, Although September 2 is the designated V-J Day in the entire United States, the event is recognized as an official holiday only in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, where the holiday's official name is "Victory Day",[16] and it is observed on the second Monday of August. There have been several attempts in the 1980s and 1990s to eliminate or rename the holiday on the grounds that it is discriminatory. While those all failed, the state legislature did pass a resolution in 1990 "stating that Victory Day is not a day to express satisfaction in the destruction and death caused by nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
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Hooray! 66 years ago we dropped a bomb that killed 160,000 people!
Seriously why Rhode Island? It's one of the states furthest away from Japan and Pearl Harbor?
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