What Is Labor Day?

ByMatthew

Labor Day is more than a three-day-weekend or the cut-off for wearing white shorts/pants.

Click here for a little history.

It’s a time to honor and celebrate those who have worked so hard to make all the things we have, use and eat, and so on.

It should also be a time to reflect on what we’ve worked for, what we’ve accomplished.

Hopefully you will take some time to think about those things today.

Oh, and for a levity:

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. – Doug Larson

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