Which we don’t celebrate here. I mean, here at the Secret Lair we don’t pay much attention to any holiday other than John Moses Browning’s birthday (January 23, in case you wondered) but we’re not against the very concept of holidays, y’know? Do what you like with them. But if there were one specific holiday we’d go out of our way to ignore and/or denigrate, it would certainly be the one on this date that has something vaguely to do with Mexico.
Not that we have anything against Mexicans, you understand. I just don’t expect them to get excited about National Eggs Benedict Day (April 16, if you cared), and in return I hope they won’t be upset if I don’t get worked up over whatever the hell happened in Mexico on May 5.
John Moses Browning – The most badass Mormon who ever lived.
Not the historian really but as I understand it, it is the celebration of the fact that a peoples army, a militia, could go up against an organized and “superior” group of government troops and win. Kicked their ass.
It is a celebration of when Mexico defeated the French Army. Not exactly something everyone else hasn’t done before. I believe it isn’t widely celebrated In Mexicomexcept in the state the battle occurred.
Don’t pay much attention to it either. Besides, if I went around celebrating every obscure French military defeat, I’d never sober up.