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Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally

Posted by kdawson on from the that-wasn't-so-hard-was-it dept.

theodp writes "It took nearly a decade, but Google has done a turnabout and is honoring Veterans Day with a special holiday design for its famous logo. Users who log onto Google's home page are greeted with three World War I-era helmets capping the letters 'o' and 'e' in Google's name. The decoration is a marked departure for the company, which has come under fire from veterans' groups for ignoring American holidays such as Veterans Day and Memorial Day since Google's inception in 1999."

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  1. Oh, reminds me... by Erikderzweite · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I do remember the outcry from some us-senators when google has put the Sputnik on its logo.
    Just as I thought, some US-Americans (unfortunately, many of them hold some power in the country) desperately want to forget and deny the simple fact, that it was the Soviet Union who made it first - Sputnik, first manned space journey, first space station - and not their precious US of A.
    [offtopic]I bet, none of them even knows what communism means, they believe it's for "big bad evil with GULAG inside"[/offtopic]