[Verginius Rufus]

A large part of the Wisconsin population has German ancestry, but no German names on the list of holidays. There are holidays honoring Anglo-Americans, African-Americans, a Pole, a Norseman who probably never saw what is not the US, but no Germans. Achtung! Wir haben hier ethnische Diskrimination!

Not sure who would be the best to add to the list--Beethoven? Goethe? Schiller? Von Steuben?

Maybe should find someone whose birthday is either between late June and early August, or between Chrismas and New Year's, so that celebrating his birthday wouldn't mean cancelling a day of school.

[cycjec]

It would be more appropriate to commemorate Steuben and
all later German-ethnic militiamen (e.g. Missouri ) by
reviving the formal citizen militia.