In June of 2017 I visited the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. He was born in the Hodgenville, Kentucky area. The Lincoln farm is part of a National Historic site and there is a replica log cabin on display for the public to see. Today we remember the birthday of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. When I was a kid and attended school in St. Louis Park, Lincoln's birthday was a holiday from school. We also were given a school holiday on February 22 in honor of George Washington's birthday. What a great month February turned out to be with two school holidays only ten days apart. Nowadays these two presidential birthdays are combined into one holiday, President's Day, and it always falls on a Monday. Today, however, is all about remembering Abraham Lincoln. Okay, another thing that happened while I was in elementary school was the addition of the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. We learned to say it one way and then we re-learned the pledge with the additional words. Another schooldays memory...yeh, I was there.
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