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I Declare War


November 12, 2007 | Tags: college

I’ve mentioned various college experiences of mine on this little corner of the internet quite a few times, but there’s one very significant thing I left out: the TI’s of the college world seem to think they can take federal holidays away from their staff and students. Come on, how fucked up is that?


I remember a professor of mine was a veteran. Funny I should remember that, because I don’t remember a damn thing he tried to teach me in class*. And maybe this is a moot point because the professor I’m using as an example died the semester after I had him as a teacher (R.I.P.**). Either way, he was working at the school, he was a veteran, and he got dicked (no John Amaechi) by the college system. He served in a war, go figure which one because I wasn’t paying enough attention to be able to tell you, and he couldn’t even get the three day weekend he deserved for it. You better believe that if I was performing surgery on people in tents in the middle of a desert, dodging napalm in a jungle, or running down rock-throwing jihadists in my heavily armored tank (marinate on that for a moment), that I’d for damn sure want my three day weekend that’s supposed to honor me.

 

Now, seeing as how some people like to casually read these blogs and then comment on them, trying to argue asinine points that would make no sort of sense whatsoever if they actually sat and comprehended my words rather than just looking at the pretty colors and font, let me get something out of the way for all of you.

Potential comment I’m sure to receive says: ”Amanda, Ambassador, whatever the hell you call yourself, why you gotta be such a hypocrite? You ain’t no veteran. I don’t see your ass fighting in any wars. I don’t see you carrying around a military ID card. You don’t deserve a damn holiday. Jay-Z ? That man deserves a holiday. Why don’t you shut your ass up with that complainin’ mess, talk about some Lil Wayne like you’re supposed to on a hip hop site, and keep it relevant! And don’t forget to check out my myspace [insert random link here]!”

My response to you? Too bad! If you want to get real deep in thought, I deserve this holiday too. Not just because it’s a federal holiday and federal holidays are intended to shut everything the fuck down for an extra day, including schools. And not just because it’s not even a religious holiday so separation of church and state doesn’t really apply (yet you know we get winter breaks with the goal that you get Christmas off of work/school! Whatever though). Not even because I think it’s crazy that I get a holiday as random as Columbus Day off, yet they can’t give me my three day weekend for (get ready for the old school) Armistice Day. Those are good points and all but that’s not what I’m getting at.


Every drop of blood in my body is filled with the DNA that I inherited from some ancestor that came from a country that at some point in time had some serious beef with the United States. I mean serious, serious beef with the United States. And you know what comes from serious issues like that? War. Is that not the reason that we have a military in the first place? To fight wars to defend our country? Without wars there would be no veterans. Without tensions there would be no war. Without people there would be no tensions. See where I’m going with this? The transitive property of unnecessary logic thus states that without my ancestors, there would be no Veterans Day. And seeing as how I’m carrying on their heritage, I deserve some time off to acknowledge Veterans Day just as much as anybody else who gets the day off does. 



Anyway, shit, I’m paying money for my diploma. I think that getting Veterans Day off should be part of what I get out of that tuition payment.  So, all you non-Veterans Day-celebrating universities out there? Give it up. Give the vets that day that they deserve.




 

*And I really could use that knowledge now thanks to a project I need to do. If anybody has any statistics knowledge, it’d be really handy if you could hit up that e-mail address located in the top left part of this page…

**Is it bad that I don't remember his name now? Consider that "R.I.P." a general one for all the American war veteran college professors we've lost.
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