U.S. Federal Holidays

It's officially a secular country, so if anything it's a bit weird that Christmas is included. And there's no need to make Easter an official holiday, since it's always on a Sunday when the majority of people aren't working anyway.

I find it a bit sad that a lot of the UK official holidays are just nameless bank holidays. Why not take the opportunity to celebrate something, even if only symbolically?

When I left the private sector to work for the government, I showed up at work on "holidays" a handful of times before I got used to the fact that we were off/closed not realizing nobody would be there. I still come in and get things done without distractions on these days sometimes.

It seems silly to me to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day. Why would indigenous people (or anyone else for that matter) want to celebrate on the day Columbus first visited the New World? Pick any other day. Even then, it seems silly to have a holiday for the first people who settled in a country. That movement just screams, "We're sorry Europeans arrived after you, and took over the land. So we'll give you a holiday as recompense." And what about the indigenous peoples who took over other indigenous peoples' areas prior to European contact? Are they absolved of any wrong-doing? Also, there were thousands of years of east Asians crossing the land bridge into North America. So which group is truly indigenous? Apparently every one of them except the most recent one. I'm not promoting Columbus Day. I'd be fine without either holiday, and many of the others.

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