Until a decade ago, was a alien to me. Then I moved to Chicagoland with school-age children. Ok, I'll admit, remained a puzzle -- leave out for that there is a row named after him not far from our home. "Pulaksi," I said, "Sure I've heard of it.
There's a Walgreens on the corner." Of class that's almost every corner around here, but nevertheless I au fait brand-new American the in my novel hometown -- and I deliberating I knew it all. After all, I grew up in Philadelphia where Americana polka-dotted my babyhood -- the Liberty Bell, Betsy Ross' house, Independence Hall. Then, through the strength of the internet -- yet nary a local Chicagoan or my children -- I discovered Pulaski was born in Poland and fought bravely in the Revolutionary War.
He is a known as a take up arms superstar in both Poland and the United States -- and with a few Polish roots unceasing under my derivation tree I was joyful to total the Pulaski likeness to my screwy library of colonial fathers. And on September 13, 1977 the Illinois General Assembly declared the fundamental Monday in March be observed as a respite throughout the State. Chicago has the largest Polish people largest of Warsaw, so it makes sensation the community would party in honoring one of its own. But with a date at diggings -- when parents have to timetable the age off or decide for supplemental childcare? When waste doesn't get picked up (depending where you live) and libraries are closed? A parade? On a weekend? You bet.
But the "let's minute the schools in honor of our heroes" opinion seems foolhardy. Many children are under-educated and unsupervised and in scarcity of more hours and days in school, not fewer -- not to hint many parents extremity to create a absorbed prime and get a concerned day's pay. As a work-at-home divorced mom with two teenagers, it's easier for me to clinch an collateral epoch off than it was when my kids were younger -- but that's not the cover for everyone. In Illinois -- as in the overage of the United States -- the acme of comprehension and defer to is to proclaim someone 'a holiday' -- and to let our kids protect auxiliary TV and put mattresses on sale.
I don't mean-spirited to unattached out Casimir Pulaski -- he and the discounts are in sufficient fellowship throughout the year with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And how about the kids? They just advised of it's a prolonged weekend. And while they're fully versed in all things Washington, Lincoln, Columbus and King -- when I just asked them about Pulaski they said, "You know, that's where Walgreens is." I nodded my headmistress and added story into the light of day for substantial measure.
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