USA: January 20 Is Officially “National Day of Patriotic Devotion”

Honestly,I'd never heard of "Loyalty Day", and I've worked for companies that gave me "UN Day" and "NATO Day" off. That was McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, R.I.P.

From the wikipedia entry: "The holiday was first observed in 1921, during the First Red Scare. It was originally called "Americanization Day," and it was intended to replace the May 1 ("May Day") celebration of the International Workers' Day,..."

"Loyalty Day" is a lot like "Freedom Fries" - just another attempt to co-opt some word deemed good, instead of some word deemed bad at the moment. The US Feds are totally weird.