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re: Robert e lee day
Posted on 1/16/17 at 9:23 am to deeprig9
Posted on 1/16/17 at 9:23 am to deeprig9
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it is weird he gets a federal holiday.
He doesn't. It's a state holiday in Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi. For a while they were separate days and state employees could choose which one to take off. They combined them all at some point, forget when.
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Posted on 1/16/17 at 9:28 am to The Spleen
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It's a state holiday in Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi. For a while they were separate days and state employees could choose which one to take off. They combined them all at some point, forget when.
Ya, since it is on the same day as MLK many people don't even know that is observed. I honestly didn't know about it till a couple of years ago.
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