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By EUGENE J, McCAKTHY
Rappahannock Guest Columnist
All Presidents’ Day caught me by surprise. I had not known that all separate President’s birthdays had been wiped out, homogenized, consolidated into one day of observance. Although I was vaguely aware that Lincoln’s birthday on February 12, had passed without much recognition.
Then, what used to be singularly and particularly and personally George Washington’s birthday approached. I noted the announcements of “All Presidents’ Sales,” not only the traditional “white sale^',” which had been associated with George and Martha, who seemed to be heavy into sheets and pillowcases, (Possibly, if we accept some doubtful historical data, because George’s disposition to sleep in so many places) but of sales of all kinds of things-especially of automobiles.
Armistice Day, I knew, had already been made non-historic and renamed “Veteran’s Day." I disapproved of that change, being of the opinion that the end of World War 1 deserved one day on the annual calendar, just as I think V.E. Day and V.J. Day also do. Memorial Dav easily could have been expanded in scope to include all veterans-the dead, the living, and those missing in action. Consolidations of these kinds were probably inevitable, certainly threatened, once the moving of days occurred in mid-week-to Monday or Friday so as to lengthen the weekend for either commercial or leisure purposes, was accepted.
They may have been foreshadowed even earlier and in a more subtle way with the introduction of homogenized food products. One of the first such products was homogenized milk. Its cream content did not show in the neck of the bottle
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