[Yo-Yo]

I will ask the unaskable question:

From the article:

June 19th commemorates the day that U.S. General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865 — and shared the news that the Emancipation Proclamation had been passed two years earlier. The Civil War had ended two months before June 1865.

If this date is not the date the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, and this date is not the date the 13th Amendment was ratified, then why is this date worthy of a Federal Holiday?

[21twelve]

I would have thought Galveston would have had a telegraph line at least.

I'm guessing that the bureaucrats had to look at the calendar and figure out the best place to put a new vacation day, and then found some date, no matter how obscure, that would fit. Seriously.

[Lurkinanloomin]

It’s really St. George of Fentanyl Day to celebrate Burning Looting Mobs.

[sauropod]

It’s not.

This is pure pandering, and it is sickening.