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Posted: Thursday, 11 June 2009 9:39PM
National Man Day movement starts in Hoosier state
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Jun 11, 2009
Be a man, would-be holiday organizers urge
CELESTINE, Ind. (AP) -- Two Indiana men have declared Monday "National Man Day" and have rallied thousands to their cause on the social networking Web site Facebook.
The event's Web page listed more than 260,000 attendees as of Thursday for the event, which the site says is "about being a responsible man and having fun doing it!"
Actually, 19-year-old host Joel Longanecker of Celestine in southern Indiana says he plans to go camping this weekend and won't be hosting any events Monday. He says Man Day is more like a holiday.
While the site urges participants to take part in "manly" activities such as football or hunting, Longanecker, a youth pastor at River of Life Church in Huntingburg, says the real theme is responsibility.
"We want to bring back the days when men stood up for what they believed in, took responsibility for their actions, treated women with respect, loved God and their country," he wrote on the Web page.
The holiday is the brainchild of Longanecker and his 26-year-old brother Aaron, of Indianapolis.
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