Did you grow up celebrating it in happy ignorance like I did?
Do you find you are able to cast a different meaning for the day yourself, one rid of its genesis?
(Btw, I just added some links to source articles to the OP.)
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Not really ignorance - when I was a kid it was in the school holidays anyway, and it wasn't really about getting people together in the way Thanksgiving was. In a very Aussie was it's more about drinking and barbies, which wasn't what my folks were into. And then as soon as we were old enough to 'get it' there was a lot of awareness of what it 'really' meant. My folks were very conscious of that too.
No, the meaning of the day to me is staled by it's genesis, and I am usually very vocally against it because of this reason. There was a call to change it to May 8th - (m8, maaate - ugh) but I'm not sure they will. There is a big debate about it here everyyear.