[Publib] Holiday Closing -- Veterans Day

[Meghan Miller Brawley]

Phalbe,
Here in Harker Heights, part of the Greater Ft. Hood community, our library
is closed on Veterans' Day, and rightly so. However, my husband (an Iraq war
vet and still on active duty) and his battalion (~700 soldiers) had to work!
-Meghan

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Phalbe Henriksen <phenriksen at neflin.org>
wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I have held off on commenting about not closing on Veterans Day, but I
> feel
> that since so many libraries are open, I must comment.
>
> Our local veterans would object most strenuously if we were open on
> Veterans
> Day. I'm surprised that those of you who are open don't get the same
> objections.
>
> Veterans are the people who are still alive after all the 20th century
> wars.
> They think we owe them the honor of a holiday in their recognition, and I
> agree.
>
> Do veterans in other parts of the country besides the south not feel so
> strongly?
>
> Phalbe Henriksen
> Director
> Bradford County Public Library
> Starke, FL
>
>
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Meghan Miller Brawley
Graduate Student
University of Tennessee
School of Information Sciences
http://web.utk.edu/~mmille46

"She flitted in and out of the Public Library with the air of
conscientiously returning or bravely carrying off in her pocket the key of
knowledge itself."
-Henry James, The Wings of the Dove
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