just a comment for you that might travel international...my first duty assignment was to Japan (1970) and although I have a degree in political science, working the trick schedule we were on, the date didn't register as significant (May 1)... I was downtown Fukuoka, and heard a parade coming down the road..shouting with red banners and flags... as I pushed near the curb for a view, a Japanese gentleman tapped me on the shoulder and said, "it would be better for you to come inside my store"...Japanese PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER. Party May Day Celebration

second time was a little more un announced... couple of years later in the Philippines, I was leaving an establishment that served adult beverages a little past midnight, and a gentleman from the Philippine Constabulary with bayonet fixed to a M16 announced "you come with me pfleese" and escorted me to jail... martial law had been ordered and a midnight curfew established...I wasn't alone