My annual Veterans Day proposal (inspired by Mike Royko) drew its annual underwhelming indifference from the public. Maybe that's because it appeared only in the Nov. 11 Calendar entry of the Outpost. To reach an even smaller audience, I am reprinting it (in slightly edited form) here:

This is Veterans Day and time to push our annual editorial campaign to honor U.S. veterans with a genuine holiday each year on this date. The rules are simple: If you are a veteran, you get today off, no matter who you work for, no matter how lousy your other benefits might be. It’s a way of returning to veterans at least a small portion of the time they devoted to their country. And it’s a small price to pay: If this holiday had been in place in 1945, a World War II veteran now well past retirement age would have been returned fewer than two months of the service time spent during the war. Too expensive? Then what the heck does “Support Our Troops” mean? If the goal is to honor veterans, then why are bankers and bureaucrats the only ones who get the day off?