Yesterday was the Presidents Day, a federal holiday. Saipan Tribune went out and asked people what they know of Presidents Day and why we celebrate it:<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember when we used to celebrate George Washington and Abraham Lincoln\u2019s birthday. But, what changed that was when President Kennedy was assassinated. That is when instead of celebrating individual Presidents, it was decided to have one holiday in honor of all Presidents.\u201d \u201cIt gives me a chance to reflect on my patriotism as a Native American, and to pay homage to the past leaders that upheld the Constitution so that we can continue to be a free nation.\u201d \u201cI attempt to visit a National Park on Presidents Day in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt\u2019s efforts to preserve the beautifully diverse topography of our great nation from the Appalachian Mountains to the gorgeous coral of the Northern Mariana Islands.\u201d (Pictured here in the White Sand Dunes National Park, New Mexico.) \u201cPresidents Day is the day when we celebrate the birthday of George Washington and to honor [him].\u201d \u201cPresidents Day is actually Washington\u2019s birthday and is celebrated on the third Monday of February, to honor the life and works of George Washington and other Presidents.\u201d \u201cWe became a Commonwealth in 1978 and we are now part of the United States. We celebrate Presidents Day now because united we stand, divided we fall.\u201d \u201cWe celebrate Presidents Day because it is formally George Washington\u2019s birthday, and since he was one of the founding father of the U.S and first President.\u201d Yesterday was the Presidents Day, a federal holiday. Saipan Tribune went out and asked people…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,665],"tags":[737,676,365,69],"class_list":["post-27911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-must-clicks","tag-creator","tag-mexico","tag-mhs","tag-nmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2014Jim Feger, MHS Rocball Creator<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2014Curtis Dancoe, Rotary Club of Saipan secretary<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2014 Brett Mathius Sutton, artist\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2014 Stephanie Camacho Morales, NMC student<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2014Teisha Camacho, Americorps volunteer and MHS student<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2014 Ramon Camacho, chairman of the Saipan Municipal Council and Northern Islands\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2014Andreau Galvez, administrative assistant at TSL Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"