In honor of Veterans Day, which was November 11, the folks at Yahoo! Shine decided that the day of remembrance needed some punctuation:
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In honor of Veterans Day, which was November 11, the folks at Yahoo! Shine decided that the day of remembrance needed some punctuation:
In an attempt to honor Veterans Day, a writer for Yahoo! Shine gives it a decorative flourish with an apostrophe:
When she’s not adding unnecessary punctuation marks to holidays, the writer is misquoting Dr. Jill Biden, who generally speaks in complete sentences:
Do I really need to explain what’s wrong with being home from the holidays? Or that post-traumatic stress disorder isn’t a proper noun, but it does sport a hyphen?
Oh, so now she uses a hyphen! But a hyphen is no substitute for an em dash — it just confuses me because a hyphen joins words. And it’s still not Veterans Day with an apostrophe: