Happy Presidents' Day

Well, this is my fifth and final blog post of the day. We've seen the presidents from Grant to McKinley, then Millard Fillmore, then a second dose of Chester Arthur, then a top 10 list excusing myself for laziness. And so I was wondering, how should I finish out Presidents' Day on a Presidential blog?

Well, I had many considerations. They included some more Chester Arthur, a poem about all the presidents (which I tried, but didn't work out too well), Barack Obama (but I'm not too big on writing about current events without direct correlation to past ones)...

And so I settled on a general message about the holiday again.

Presidents' Day is unappreciated in today's society. We treat it as an excuse for a three day weekend.

But you have to remember that we have 43 different men who've led our country and that each and every one of them contributed something to what we are today.

Yes, even William Henry Harrison.

We need to really consider the impacts of these men at some point in our lives, if but for a moment.

And for Presidents' Day, celebrate one of the guys who doesn't get recognition. Washington and Lincoln don't need more celebration, they've got national monuments! Think about the guys who lead up to the Civil War and what they did to try and put it off. Consider the ideas of the men who couldn't stop it. Think of the Gilded Age presidents and see what they did to try to fight corruption and how a fight against it can result in more corruption or how a corrupt man is the most effective weapon to end it.

Presidents are important for as long as our country survives. Don't let their names fade away into obscurity, because they helped mold the world around you.

Presidents' Day

...is quite possibly the most worthless holiday we have in the United States.

It sprung from celebrations of Lincoln's Birthday (on February 12) and Washington's Birthday (on February 22) and so now Presidents' Day is celebrated on a Monday in February, I suppose the third Monday, and we all get a three-day weekend instead of two days off.

But this is not my problem with the upcoming holiday. My problem is people don't celebrate the presidents. Not once have I heard of someone preaching about the greatness of Abraham Lincoln on this holiday. Nor have I seen someone wearing a George Washington t-shirt.

If we're getting this day off, why aren't people celebrating even these greatest presidents?

But in addition, people further shun the lesser presidents. Maybe they'll think of Washington and Lincoln, maybe even the Roosevelts. But what about the Millard Fillmores and the William McKinleys and the Benjamin Harrisons of our land? Isn't it their holiday too?

But people don't celebrate any of this. So why should this holiday still exist?


That being said, on Monday I'm wearing a Chester Arthur t-shirt and posting multiple blogs about some of the presidents who get no love.