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I am only in my late 20s. But I understand President's Day used to be in honor of HONORABLE Presidents of the United States, like the beloved George Washington and Abe Lincoln.
So should we honor crooks like Bush and Obama today, President's Day 2010???
Or should we honor the truly honorable Presidents of Old (Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln... Reagan)??
Who is YOUR fav President, who do YOU think of of when thinking honoring President's Day???
"Presidents Day" used to be two separate days honoring Lincoln and Washington. With the advent of Martin Luther King day, Lincoln and Washington's birthday was lumped into "Presidents Day". I think we should go back to the old way, as Lincoln and Washington certainly trump MLK in the scope of US history.
I am only in my late 20s. But I understand President's Day used to be in honor of HONORABLE Presidents of the United States, like the beloved George Washington and Abe Lincoln.
So should we honor crooks like Bush and Obama today, President's Day 2010???
Or should we honor the truly honorable Presidents of Old (Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln... Reagan)??
Who is YOUR fav President, who do YOU think of of when thinking honoring President's Day???
I voted for Lincoln and Washington, the only real heroes of the group. I remember getting out of school in my first years of teaching for those two men's birthdays and then one day someone decided to cut the number of school holidays in half by including them on that day. I still think that we have to allow something special for them in that one created the US, or, at least without him the Constitution would not have been successful. In Lincoln's instance the United States was maintained whether he freed any slaves with the proclamation, and he didn't free one slave with it, the nation came out of that divisive war still in one piece.
Washington was our first, so he should be honored. But I voted for all of them.
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