To appreciate Labor Day, one needs to know the history preceding it.
At the time the United States was founded, most people were self-employed, working as either farmers or in trades, such as:
baker,
butcher,
carpenter,
cabinetmaker,
upholsterer,
tailor,
milliner...
World War Two combat in the Pacific began when military forces of Imperial Japan invaded China, Thailand, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines.
The fighting that followed included...
