Calendar · Triumph · Perseverance
Days we keep on purpose
Independence Day, Columbus Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas — the civic year that exhibits American greatness, past and present. This list is not closed. The archive stays open for new stories of triumph and perseverance.
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Veterans Day · November 11, 2026
Third Monday of February
Presidents’ Day
The office is larger than any one person. It is the people’s office — the only office elected by the people of all 50 states.
Last Monday of May
Memorial Day
The day is for the dead. Not a sale. Not a season opener. The people who did not come home.
July 4
Independence Day
The day a people put in writing that they would govern themselves. Fireworks came later. The claim came first.
Second Monday of October
Columbus Day
A Genoese navigator crossed an ocean in 1492. The federal holiday still bears his name. Exploration, seamanship, and the opening of the Atlantic world belong on the American calendar.
November 11
Veterans Day
Armistice Day, 1918 — the eleventh hour. Now the day we thank the living who served, including those who came home and went back to work.
Fourth Thursday of November
Thanksgiving
A national day of thanks — harvest, family, and the habit of naming what we did not earn alone. Lincoln made it a regular November day in the middle of a civil war.
December 25
Christmas
The Nativity on the American calendar — worship protected by the First Amendment, carols in the courthouse square, and the freedom to keep a holy day in public without a ministry’s leave.
The archive stays open
Town honor rolls. A veteran who went back to the shop. A family that kept a holiday when it was unfashionable. A kid who learned the Declaration and meant it. Send it. We will source it against the record and put it on the calendar.