Having never personally gotten over the Uniform Monday Holiday atrocity that changed our holiday calendar back in 1971, I am very pleased that this year I can wish you all a very
Happy Columbus Day!
on the "correct" day of October 12th.
I still haven't gotten over the transition from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian, nor the use of CE and BCE instead of AD and BC, nor the movement that changed "Good Christian Men, Rejoice" into "Good Christian Friends, Rejoice." None of you will be surprised at my annoyance with celebrating Columbus Day on a day that honors not the landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas but Americans' desire to have a long weekend.
But this year they are one and the same, and if Columbus had not made that historic landing, there's a good chance I wouldn't be here. I consider that worth a celbration!
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