“We Should Celebrate Individual POTUS Birthdays.” Jeff Dunetz at The Lid has a point:
Monday, February 15, has been
designated as Presidents’ Day, another fake holiday seemingly meant to tear
down American heroes and replace them with a meaningless day off work (for
some). But I urge you, America, to reject this sham holiday.
In New York, where I grew up, we
celebrated the birthdays of two of our greatest presidents in February, Abraham
Lincoln on the 12th and George Washington on the 22nd. Lincoln’s birthday was
never a federal holiday (southern states still weren’t happy about losing the
Civil War). In 1968 congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which moved
Washington’s big day to the third Monday in February and changed it to
Presidents’ Day. A celebration of all presidents.
It’s right to celebrate the
presidents individually, sure, but not all 46 of them on the same day. I mean,
it isn’t celebrating any of them if you are celebrating all of
them.
Read the full piece here.
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