Maybe you won’t question having Monday off from work. Or maybe you’ll question it that day, sometime in the morning after discovering the doors at work are locked.

Go home. Relax. Gloat if you like.

Monday’s Victory Day, and Rhode Island is the only state where it is.

The holiday observes the end of World War II. Victory Day, celebrated the second Monday of August, marks Japan’s capitulation on Aug. 15, 1945, although the country’s formal surrender, aboard the battleship Missouri, would come a couple of weeks later, Sept. 2.

The day Japan surrendered some called V-J Day, meaning Victory over Japan, which came three months after Germany’s surrender, which some called V-E Day, meaning Victory in Europe.

However, President Truman, in a 1946 proclamation, didn’t distinguish between J and E. He simply established Victory Day. And only Rhode Island still officially honors it. Arkansas, believed to be the last other state to celebrate the day, dropped the holiday in 1975.

Over the years, state officials in Rhode Island have proposed changing the name of the holiday from Victory Day to World Peace Day, Remembrance Day and Rhode Island Veterans Day. But WW II veterans protested, so the name remains.

Stores are open today, but state and municipal offices and libraries are closed. However, there is mail delivery since that’s performed by the U.S. Postal Service, a federal entity, not a state one.