Politics● LowSep 17 · Sep 17, 2026, 11:30 AM
It’s America’s most important holiday. Did you even know?
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from The Hill · North America
The most important national holiday in the U.S. doesn’t earn its citizens a day off from work or school. It wasn’t formally created until 2004, when Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) quietly inserted it into an omnibus spending bill. Most Americans have no idea when it is celebrated or even what it commemorates. And yet, given…
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