Presidents Day 3 day holiday!

I remember when we used to get one President's birthday off from school alternating years, one Washington, the other Lincoln. Our Presidents Day now a 3 day holiday honoring any president of the United States you want to honor...or none is a much better holiday, more equivocal. This picture of the White House with the Washington monument, our first president in the background is fitting to me for this holiday. We should start with our first President and how he came to be elected and then go through the list. Some I discard, others I really haven't "met" so to speak. Then to the present one who just zipped through my home state of California causing all kinds of ripples of excitement including a dope plane in his no fly space for the second time!

Reading about the building of the White House and the Adams family occupying it is quite an experience or any remodeling job on it. I was in high school when Jackie Kennedy remodeled and gave a big tour. I was so impressed. I thought it was the first one since the fire of Madison's time but then I was just now getting the news that Washington didn't really chop down the cherry tree so the story about his never lying was all pretend.

As a citizen I believe one should take it upon oneself to get informed about something of a President and his (it won't be a her)  life upon our country. I was taught that in public school, that if I don't participate in the processes of this country to elect officials, then I will lose my freedom. Or I might even have a voice in influencing Congress or a President on issues I care about. I would not have believed this during the Viet Nam War. I do now. I hope citizens will spend this time off, this holiday wisely in this election year and not write our country off as hopelessly lost.