This may be a cynical answer, but I don't see reason to make it a national holiday. The reason being - the current national holidays are barely paid attention to properly.

All the holidays (both official and non-official), Memorial Day, Pearl Harbor Day, V-J Day, etc, just end up being a sale day for retailers. Hardly anyone properly pay respects to those who have fought and died for their country during times of war.

Other countries/cultures do properly celebrate these days in history with public ceremonies, prayers, etc. But most of us on the United States do not. We use these days as an excuse to get out of work or school and to go shopping at a discount.

I guess my point is, why make V-J Day a national holiday when most of society doesn't care about those events.

I hate it. I would love to see all of us commemorate these landmark days in our world history. We need to remember and respect the past in order to try and not repeat those mistakes.

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