April 30th, The Lost Holiday

The American Thinker ^ | April 27, 2014 | Craig Seibert

[No One Special]

What a great statement. Thanks so much.

[Resettozero]

It had already begun but intensified with Santy Claus, Xmas,
Easter bunnies, egg hunts, etc.

National holidays became “long weekends” and big fireworks shows according to the smiling faces on TV who had something timely to say which was all scripted. Our holidays, most on Mondays, became escapes from having to report to work and excuses to go out of town and spend money.

Fill-in reporters, TV anchors and DJs, weather talkers, and recent graduatess auditioning on-air for those broadcast jobs had no idea what America was all about but could talk on and on about Mother Nature this and Mother Nature that.

Eventually, America got fouled up during my generation. Which is why I feel responsible to clean up the mess we made. Easier said than done, unfortunately. But, FR is a place to start.

Just adding a little to what you posted.

[ansel12]

I already celebrate Camerone Day on April 30th.

[MeshugeMikey]

As I understand it George had a very rich prayer life.

[Ezekiel]

...it was obvious that if virtue - the virtue of the people, was the foundation of republican government, the stability and duration of the government must depend upon the stability and duration of the virtue by which it is sustained."

Bump!

[MileHi]

“[O]n the morning of the day on which our illustrious President will be invested with his office, the bells will ring at nine o’clock, when the people may go up to the house of God and in a solemn manner commit the new government, with its important train of consequences, to the holy protection and blessing of the Most high. An early hour is prudently fixed for this peculiar act of devotion and . . . is designed wholly for prayer.”

So did the ACLU file a lawsuit over this?

[TexasBarak]

Mine, too- but I’m only hitting 50 (which just seems odd- I can’t remember having been around that long).

[Bigg Red]

Happy Birthday to both of you.

My eldest brother will be 78 that day.

[Bigg Red]

I hear you.

I am happy to say, though, that Flag Day, June 14, is not forgotten in Baltimore at Ft. McHenry, the location of the battle that inspired Key to write the “Star Spangled Banner”.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you so much for posting that. God bless.

[cyn]

//From George Washington’s inaugural address:

No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.//

Perfect addition to consider on this occasion: shows where Washington’s head and heart were!

[princess leah]

I’ve been to Fort McHenry and climbed the stairs in the old Lighthouse...We went in March 2003 right after Bush declared war on Hussein (Saddam) and the entrances had 2 guards and they did a solid search on our vehicle before we could go on base to the lighthouse section.

[Bigg Red]

I don’t think that there is a lighthouse at Fort McHenry in Baltimore....

[cyn]

Thanks for ping. I don’t want to lose this.