The stress of cooking and finding enough chairs for Thanksgiving dinner, the fun of watching fireworks on Independence Day, finding a parking spot at the mall the week before Christmas, dealing with annoying relatives: activities and experiences that dominate our attention and define every holiday. People get so caught up in the rituals and minutiae of holidays that they lose sight of what they are celebrating. As much as holidays are a celebration of an event or person, they are, more fundamentally, a call for the remembrance of the virtues symbolized by those people and events. Christmas is not about who has the most valuable present waiting for them under the tree. Independence Day does not stand as an anti-British holiday. Thanksgiving certainly does not celebrate the history of European and Native American relations. They celebrate some of the foundational pillars of virtue our country rests upon: the generosity and the privilege of having enough to give, the proclamation of, and ...
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