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78 Flag Day will be a good holiday for you to try and make one of each of these flags and hang them out with Old Glory. You may learn one of our beautiful flag poems, and you and the other boys and girls, may meet to sing the National airs that have been written about the flag.

The most wonderful thing about Uncle Sam is his tolerance. He goes all over the Union from state to state and tries to feel just as the people he meets in each state feel. He tries to put himself in their places. When he is in the North he waves the Stars and Stripes on the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, our country’s beloved martyr. When he is in the South Uncle Sam recognizes as state holidays the birthdays of the two great leaders of the Confederacy, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis. He wishes both the North and the South, though, to keep Memorial Day, on May 30, and parade in honor of our brave armies of the Blue and the Gray.

In many states Arbor Day is celebrated and the children keeping it have planted over three hundred and fifty millions of trees and vines that will help make the United States beautiful, and supply building material, and food. In New England, Uncle Sam remembers the farmers of Lexington and celebrates their Revolutionary bravery on Patriots’ Day, April 19. Election Day is a