Forgetting a Day of Remembrance

Today is Veterans Day (or Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day, depending on your locale). This is one of those holidays (for good or for bad) that fall in the spectrum somewhere between days like "National Grandparents Day," which are generally only recognized by the card companies, and the biggies like Thanksgiving Day, which are all-out frontal cultural assaults. Today, only a few ceremonies, maybe a parade, and only the banks and government/postal locations are closed.

I suppose that's why there has been a steady stream of people peering, confused, into the darkened bank branch in our building's lobby. This kind of day of remembrance is easy to forget. I remembered enough to wonder if the building would be locked — as it sometimes is on bank holidays — and yet I'll probably still look in the mailbox when I get home.