Why am I not surprised? Google, you are an American company! NO mention is found this morning citing the day's significance on Google's opening home page... instead Google chooses to celebrate the lunar new year. Today in United States of America history, February 1st is National Freedom Day – an anniversary remembrance and celebration signed into existence by President Harry Truman. Give 'em Hell Harry! On February 1, 1865, Republican President Abe Lincoln signed the resolution that permitted what would become the Thirteenth Amendment to our United States Constitution.
Let me refresh Google management's memory and what seems to be the memory of a majority of American citizens. Remember this now:
Amendment XIII “Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
President Lincoln's action on this 1865 day forever codified and ended slavery in the United States as long as we have a U.S. Constitution... an immensely significant day in American history. WE THE PEOPLE of the United States... should each be thankful for the many freedoms we are afforded as citizens of our very fine country! Forget this freedom, or how freedom was won, and our freedom will continue to melt away.
