NORFOLK, Va. (AP) Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/presidents-day-from-george-washingtons-modest-birthdays-to-big-sales-and-3-day-weekends/">Read More</a>
NORFOLK, Va. Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic not a tyrant. And yet the nation will once again commemorate the first U.S. president on Monday, 292 years after he was born. The meaning […]
The meaning has changed dramatically, from being mostly unremarkable and filled with work for Washington in the 1700s to the consumerism bonanza it has become today.
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A fun fact about George Washington is that the first president has “two birthdays" because of the way that time was kept for the first 20 years of his life.