Trump declares two new ‘national holidays’ – but Americans won’t get time off
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President wants to recognize the end of the First and Second World Wars with national holidays

President wants to recognize the end of the First and Second World Wars with national holidays

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    One of them is literally already a federal holiday…

    November 11 is already observed as Veterans’ Day in the United States and was previously known as Armistice Day between 1938 and 1954, when it was changed to honor all of America’s combat veterans, not just those who participated in the Great War.

    “We are not renaming Veterans’ Day,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told ABC News, by way of clarification.

    “It will just be an additional proclamation that goes out on that day.”