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To: Straight Vermonter

I want to know why Patriot’s day is the 15th and not the 19th.

Oh let me guess - they wanted long weekends even at tat level. Who cares when it actually is.


6 posted on 04/16/2013 12:55:42 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

They’ve been doing it that way since 1969. The holiday is a really big deal in Boston, I don’t see how it could be that way mid-week.

Look at it this way, 47 state don’t celebrate the day at all.


10 posted on 04/16/2013 1:00:34 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
I want to know why Patriot’s day is the 15th and not the 19th.

It was the 19th the year I ran Boston; I think they've made it the middle Monday of April now for the long weekends instead of an interrupted work week.

But I could be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time!

33 posted on 04/16/2013 2:38:29 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: the OlLine Rebel; JimRed

Patriot’s day is the 3rd Monday in April. I know because I’m a fantasy baseball geek and the 11am BoSox game means an 8am strat here in Cali and I have to make sure my lineups are set.


39 posted on 04/16/2013 5:32:14 PM PDT by newbie 10-21-00
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