It seems to me that a number of our "patriotic" legal holidays emphasize US wars of foreign aggression and those who have volunteered to be individual aggressors in the same.

Since many of us who are not self-employed have, perforce, the same days off from work, a reasoned and reasonable response to these holidays would be to recast them in a more libertarian light -- to use them to educate the public, to rally around libertarian ideas and, if appropriate to the time of year, to support Libertarian candidates for office.

Some ideas to get the conversation started:

• Presidents' Day -- while this started out as a way to condense Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's Birthday and fit them into the Monday Holiday Bill, I see no reason why we could not focus more on those US Presidents who had more libertarian viewpoints and ideas
• Memorial Day -- without detracting from those true Patriots who fought to preserve our freedoms, and those who fought to preserve our land against foreign aggressors, we can also list and commemoriate those freedoms we have lost through excessive government and through popular indifference
• Independence Day -- I'd consider this pretty straightforward... but then, when have we ever seen a public reading of the Declaration of Independence, or a public reading of the Intolerable Acts, or a public reading of the Bill of Rights, on this day?

The list is not complete. Do non-militaristic holidays such as Labor Day (in honor of labor unions) and Columbus Day need recasting? What about Armistice Day (Veterans' Day)? I'd like to see your viewpoints on this.