I
was moved a week ago by my girl in-law's remark on the death of her dedicated
mother. She cited President Abraham Lincoln who stated, "All I am, or want
to be, I owe to my blessed messenger mother." Presidents' Day is a call to
recall our identity. It is a call to recollect and value those flawed men of
American history who have made it feasible for us to live as we do, appreciate
the flexibilities we have and to be natives of the best nation ever.
Presidents'
Day, when changed in 1968, by President Chester Arthur to National Holiday
Monday, the third Monday in February, has come to mean a recognition day for
both Presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln whose birthdays are
February 22nd and twelfth individually.
Today
we recollect numerous U.S. Presidents who have had impact in producing this
extraordinary America. George Washington, at age 43, drove Americans in the
reason for flexibility as General of the Armed Forces. He didn't have an armed
force to begin with.
In
his acclaimed and uncommonly concise Second Inaugural Address in 1865 President
Abraham Lincoln, advised his comrades to look to their own particular ethics
before censuring those of others. In spite of the fact that he communicated his
distain that men ought to get their bread from the sweat of others, as did the
Confederates, he concentrated on the need of reconstructing the United States
of America. The Civil War was completion. Many had been slaughtered. Lincoln
himself would be killed days after he gave that discourse.
Chief
instructor, antiquarian and biographer, David McCullough, in discourses he has
made at numerous establishments of higher learning, trusts that we should know
history to know our identity. We know the general population who have made us
our identity. They are guardians, companions, educators, opponents and
contenders. These we have related with eye to eye.
A
more extensive and more total learning of History is again and again
disregarded in our instructive framework today. We have to educate our little
ones in the Elementary Schools the history that characterizes for them their
identity.
How
would we fulfill this? We have to wind up distinctly inquisitive about our
nation's history. We should read and think. By what method will our kids have
the capacity to peruse and think about anything in the event that we don't?
Love
of perusing and energy about history is not educated. It is gotten. Youngsters
romantic tales. History is simply stories we can advise to our youngsters.
Reveal to them the stories we love, and they will start to address and to
peruse.
I
believe Presidents' Day is a call to Americans to recollect our identity, to
study history, and to pass it along to the cutting edge with the regard and
energy it warrants.
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