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# A discernible lack of holiday spirit
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/a-discernible-lack-of-holiday-spirit/
- Published: 2006-10-14T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T21:39:56.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

This past week, Q-line asked: “Who really deserves a holiday named in their honor? Should schools and offices be closed for all of these honorary days, or has the calendar become clouded? Is there a current holiday that should be eliminated? Here are your responses: ✆ “Thomas Jefferson, a real statesman and friend of freedom, deserves a day. His day should replace (Abraham) Lincoln’s. Honoring the lawyer-politician Lincoln should be eliminated, as he was a traitor to the Constitution by bringing on the war between the states (aka “the Civil War”). Lincoln, by force of war, made the federal government superior over the states that had established it to serve them. Lincoln’s usurpation has led to our modern warfare megastate. Jefferson, on the other hand, warned of superstates and central banking, e.g. the Federal Reserve. Lincoln has been proven very wrong; Jefferson has been proven right.” ✆ “Perhaps we should have a holiday for the unknown volunteer. In other words, the hundreds of thousands, or millions, of people who lovingly donate their time and services, but are not recognized, not made famous for the great service to humanity that they give. And why not have a school day as a holiday where the children are given volunteer opportunities?”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 14, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/101406.pdf?ref=smdp.com)