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Abe
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0 posted 2009-02-12 08:03 AM



PRESIDENT’S DAY

Back in Seventeen ninety-six
Is when this Holiday began
For the birthday of ol’ George
At least, that was the plan.
It was his last full year
Of his Presidency
Born February twenty-second
Or the Eleventh, because you see
The old calendar was different
Than the one we use today
And some celebrated one
Some people, on the other day.
By the early Nineteenth Century
Celebrated every year
Birthnight Balls were held
Taverns reveled in good cheer.
Public figures gave their speeches
And Receptions given by a few
Then along came ol’ Abe Lincoln
His Birthday, in February, too.
In Eighteen and sixty-five
The year after Booth’s fatal shot
Both House’s of Congress gathered
For a Memorial, and solemn thought.
Not a Federal Holiday like George’s
But legal in more than one State
And then a Resolution was enacted
Back in Nineteen sixty-eight.
They made the third Monday of the month
To make for a three day weekend
To honor Washington and Lincoln
And this story comes to it’s end.


Del "Abe" Jones
Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity. copyright 1984

[This message has been edited by Abe (02-13-2009 08:52 AM).]

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Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
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1 posted 2009-02-12 08:54 AM


Beautiful remembrance day poem, dear Abe!

Love,
Margherita


Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25
Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2 posted 2009-02-12 09:25 AM


Yo Abe,

Thanks for the history lesson.  

This is well done, and I like it loads.

Bobby

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