...commercials. The Super Bowl has truly become bigger than just a football game. The whole day is an event. It should be a national holiday. Christopher Columbus has his own holiday for crying out loud! We're expected to celebrate his discovery of America...

April 1st, a day for fun and fooling. Some have commented about it being a national holiday based on Psalm 14:1. People say things in their hearts, as that verse indicates. I am thankful that is how God chooses to...

...bitter winter. The last Monday in May more somberly honors America's war dead. Memorial Day's origins as a national holiday began with tributes held each spring after the Civil War by Confederate women's groups. In April 1866, women...

...wars. In 1968, the Uniforms Holiday Bill ensured three-day weekends for federal employees by celebrating four national holidays on Mondays: Washington's birthday, Memorial Day, Veterans Day and Columbus Day. Under this bill, Veterans...

...celebrate a bountiful harvest, an event many regard as the nation's first Thanksgiving. It eventually became a national holiday in 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a day of thanksgiving. Later...