Presidents Day watered down : Not all deserving of such a high honor

Not long ago, many countries celebrate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln February 12 and February 22 is George Washington.
Today the nation celebrates "Presidents Day", a weekend of three days, as for sales of tracks and cars.

Many people still refer Presidents Day as a day to honor the father of our country. And legally, the federal holiday is still called "Washington's birthday."

But in 1968, when Congress moved the celebration from February 22 to the third Monday in February, the day has become ambiguous. Congress did intend to create a single national holiday to honor Lincoln and Washington, born in February? No. But many people assume that this is the case. Soon, the speakers called the party "Presidents' Day." And the name stuck.

So today we honor in Washington alone? Washington and Lincoln? Or Presidents' Day turned into a generic holiday to honor all presidents, including Millard Fillmore T., Richard Nixon, Chester Arthur and Bill Clinton?

For many people, the latter proposal is absurd. Contains all the chairpersons of our national celebration devalues the honor.

But for others, is the goal.

Our university has deconstructionists taught two generations of students to reject American exceptionalism in favor of taking the American oppressor. Instead, teach the history of one of our development, these scholars will teach history, series of unfortunate events. According to them, people act only out of personal interest, heroism is a myth.

Over time, these harmful ideas infected the American consciousness:

Today's leaders and the American dictators to forgive the sins of the alleged (see, for example, President Obama's speech in Cairo in 2009), we study the past history of prurient interest in scandal in the private and public work, and Our elementary schools refuse to teach students of our fathers.

While some Massachusetts schoolchildren learn about life and colonial society, very few studies of the Massachusetts patriots John Adams and Paul Revere and try to understand how these men changed the course of history.

Even less to learn to respect in Washington or Lincoln. Unfortunately, today's students are more likely to complain that Washington owned slaves, but I admire his humility has rejected a monarchy or a presidency for life. Similarly, they are more likely to describe Lincoln racist manic-depressive as the "Great liberated", which saved the disintegration of our country.

Washington and Lincoln were false, there can be no doubt about it. But the heroes are not saints. (In fact, most of the saints can not live even up to the level of perfection we expect of heroes today.)

Heroes is what the teacher Peter Gibbon calls "imperfect people in an extraordinary success, courage, and the size of the soul, whose scope is wider than ours."

These are people who, despite their flaws, overcome adversity to change the world for the better, and that inspires us to try to do the same thing.

Under this definition, the Washington and Lincoln, two of the greatest heroes of our nation, and they each need a vacation (or holiday called Washington-Lincoln day).

Unfortunately, in this era of political correctness, we have become a culture comfortable with greatness and a nation of heroes is not unique. We deconstructed our history, to the extent that people believe celebrities relevant and irrelevant exceptional importance. "The dead white are out, athletes, pop stars and minor historical figures

Why not celebrate all presidents? And while we're at it, why not celebrate all the senators, congressmen, governors, mayors and state officials? They do not deserve a holiday too? Not everyone?