Sometimes it's good to look back to our forefathers.

And try to honor
the high principles which they laid down to help guide the United States of America forward as a united country.

More than ever, now is one of those times...

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"Presidents' Day (officially Washington's Birthday at the federal governmental level) is a holiday in the United States celebrated on the third Monday of February. Since 1879, Presidents Day has been the federal holiday honoring Founding Father George Washington, who led the Continental Army to victory in the American Revolutionary War, presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and served as the first U.S. president from 1789 to 1797.

The day is an official state holiday in most states under various names. Depending upon the specific law, the state holiday may officially celebrate Washington alone, Washington and Abraham Lincoln, or some other combination of U.S. presidents (such as Washington and Thomas Jefferson)."

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"George Washington was born on February 22, 1732. Washington's Birthday was celebrated on February 22nd from 1879 until 1970. To give federal employees a three-day weekend, in 1968 the Uniform Monday Holiday Act moved it to the third Monday in February, which can occur from February 15 to the 21st. The day soon became known as Presidents Day.

As many states and cities followed suit, some states that had been celebrating Lincoln's birthday on February 12 combined the two into Presidents Day. The use & placement of an apostrophe can vary & can provide the occasion to remember & to honor Abraham Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays together.

Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, preserved the Union, abolished slavery, bolstered the federal government, and modernized the U.S. economy."