Tag Archives: Israel’s Independence Day

Our Memorial Day stands, rather lonesome, a few months before our Independence Day. By contrast, Israel’s two such days come back to back. Their Remembrance Day was Monday, their Independence Day, the sixty-first, was Tuesday. I also like the way even their most senior IDF officers eschew the "chest candy" that ours wear. War, whatever lies the foreign news media like to tell, is not celebrated there. Even their national anthem has none of our rocket’s red glare. Treppenwitz explains it all rather better than I could.