My brother Patrick has his birthday on St. Patrick’s Day. It is always on St. Patrick’s Day regardless the day of the week. St. Patrick’s Day is not a federal holiday in which some people are able to take the day off with pay. It isn’t even seen as a holiday by many people though there are some who choose to celebrate the Irish heritage day.
Kayla and I both have birthdays which
may fall on a holiday weekend as both MLK day and Memorial Day have moved their
celebrated day to Monday – or rather a day that follows the weekend and those
who get paid for Federal holidays are able to take them off. I think had mentioned in an earlier post how
excited my mom said that Kayla was to be off on her birthday in 1986 – the first
celebration of MLK – though it wasn’t nationally celebrated until 1995 (here)
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I was on my mission at the time and do not have any other recollection except that mom said that my sister thought it was a cool celebration as it gave her the day off from school. Roland had the Monday off in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. though the holiday recognition is the 20th (here)
In addition to MLK is the presidential
inauguration every four years. How
terrible it was (and still is) for 2016 celebration. Not a great way to start out her birthday –
though only half of the nation was in mourning.
Of course each year was worse – especially the last one. But this year is better. So far it has seemed peaceful.
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Kayla sent me an email as I am not currently on facebook and so have not looked at what was sent through messenger – though she says it says the same thing. The inauguration this year is surely an improvement over the last. Kayla is 46 years old today. Joe Biden is our 46th president – well sort of. Grover Cleveland served two terms in office which were not in a row. He served as the 22 and 24 president. #23 was Benjamin Harrison – grandson of William Henry Harrison – our 9th president who served less than two months – if he even served at all . . . (here)
WHH gave the nation’s longest inauguration
speech in freezing weather. He wasn’t
dressed for it. He caught pneumonia and
died. Nice weather on January 20th
seems rare. There was one year Kayla and
my mom had gone somewhere (probably to a birthday lunch) when neither of them
were wearing coats. Kayla said it was
the first birthday she remembered not having needed a coat.
Happy Birthday Kayla. Joe Biden is going to make America great
again.
Very clever!
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