Show AUGUST GETS A DAY now august has a day up to tuesday aug 14 in the united states august alone of all the months had no widely observed red letter day not even a day marked by some form of traditional merrymaking august ushered in no new year or era it waited hot and humid or oven dry according 0 to th the e climate for the cool of september and its labor day in the north american workaday world patriots seem to have scorned august for their birth month las sultry airs carried no echoes from T or bunker hill and a month with such an imperial name would have none of all AH foods day no solemn remembrance no occasion of victory or liberation was noted in august the harvest not being fully in gathered this was not the month chosen to give thanks for earths bounty and although jesus was wa born under the reign of the emperor for whom the I 1 month was named his birth festival is four months away if we are to celebrate the fourteenth day of august or if the later VJ day is chosen we should do so noi not with unseemly jollification but with solemn rededication to our task of achieving and perpetuating a world of freedom and justice for all |