fun fact: national doughnut day was started on june 7, 1938 (1938!) by a military doctor named morgan pett and the salvation army as a way to distribute free doughnuts to wounded soldiers and the needy and to celebrate the women volunteers of the salvation army that distributed doughnuts to wounded soldiers during world war I. (ww1!)
fun fact: doughnut day ALWAYS falls on the first friday of june every year and honors those women volunteers as well as all of the soldiers that were wounded in battle.
fun fact: D-Day occurred on june 6, 1944 (1944!) in Normandy with ~12,000 casualties.
fun fact: D-Day refers to the invasion of Normandy, code named Operation Neptune (because it was an amphibious assault), that eventually allowed the Allies access to Europe.
fun fact: the two have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
tumblr people, please stop saying that doughnut day is “appropriating” D-Day or that it’s disrespectful because it literally has nothing to do with D-Day and has actually been going on since before D-Day even occurred. it’s just a coincidence that the two fall on the same day this year.