Flag-Wavers-R-Us
In spite of our many differences, Americans overall are pretty patriotic. In fact, based upon the results of one part of the World Values Survey, patriotism level among Americans is among the top 3 ranking countries in the world. You can see this patriotism evident in our holidays throughout the year.
Memorial Day, originally May 30th, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service. It was originally designed to honor fallen soldiers of the Civil War; therefore the southern states didn't get on board with the holiday until after WWI when it became dedicated to the fallen in all wars.
Flag Day is a more obscure holiday. Most folks carry with them a vague recollection of toting little stiff flags home from school every year, but beyond that, more pertinent details remain dim. Begun in 1885 by a school teacher in Fredonia, Wisconsin, Flag Day marks the anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. Truman signed an act of Congress in 1949 designating June 14th as the official day of recognition.
Veterans Day is sometimes confused in function with Memorial Day. But the crucial difference here is that Veterans Day honors all those, living or dead, who have honorable service in the finest military on earth. Celebrated on November 11th, it was originally call Armistice Day until the end of WWI.
The most important and undoubtedly the loudest of our national holidays is Independence Day, commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1777. It took those signers a great deal of courage, costing some of them their fortunes and even their lives. We pay homage to those heroes who started it all with tumultuous revelry and colorful fireworks.
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Take the Hershey’s bar wrapper. In the last 100 years, it has had 16 versions, and in studying them you see the history not only of the product, but of societal norms of advertising, and legal changes in food processing and packaging. (To view all 16 versions, visit the
The last year the Baby in the Cocoa Bean was seen on the front of the bars was 1911; thereafter it was relegated to an image on the back, replaced with the block letter HERSHEY’S still in use today. It is upon this universally recognized logo, created almost a century ago, that CARSON built its business with the infinitely popular



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with them the legend of Sinter Klaas. This version of St. Nicholas was alleged to have ridden around town every Christmas eve distributing gifts. But it wasn’t all whistles and baby dolls. He rode in company with a figure called Black Peter who would inflict whippings on naughty children. This line from a popular song, “So be good for goodness sake,” takes on a bit more threatening tone in the light of this information, doesn’t it?
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