July 2 could have been the U.S. holiday, and in fact, John Adams thought it would be. It was on the 2nd that the Continental Congress voted for independence. Adams wrote (I got this quote from Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts): "The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha in the History of America.--I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival.... It ought to be solemnized ... from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more."
I was born in Saskatchewan, and I once jokingly argued to my boss that I should get Canada Day as well as the Fourth as a holiday. Being in the U.S. Army, and stationed in Korea at the time, the notion was not well received.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
I was born in Saskatchewan, and I once jokingly argued to my boss that I should get Canada Day as well as the Fourth as a holiday. Being in the U.S. Army, and stationed in Korea at the time, the notion was not well received.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.