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Columbus Day An Extra Day Off Sounds Nice “It is only radical or currently unfashionable ideas that the texts leave out—it is all ideas, including those of their heroes.” (FitzGerald) USF does not recognize a major holiday. A lot of schools do not recognize this holiday. This upsets and disappoints me. The holiday that I am speaking of is Columbus Day. My barber shop is not open, neither is my favorite liquor store. Why is my school still open' The reason is simply because many people see Christopher Columbus as a tyrant and do not think we should observe this holiday. If we are going to celebrate Presidents Day and Independence Day then why not celebrate Columbus Day. Our country can kill and it is justified, and Columbus killed yet it is some how frowned upon. I believe we need to respect and show thanks to the man that lead to our founding as country. Christopher Columbus set sail for the East Indies in the year 1492. “Columbus outfitted three pitifully small ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, and set forth from Spain.” (Lowen 39) This shows that Columbus did not set off on an easy voyage. It shows that we columbus, day, celebrate, land, holiday, great, yet, spain, set, people, man, lincoln, just, independence, should, reason, nation, lives, country, wanted, slaves, shows, save, off, new, might, know, killed, going, freeing, english, else, done, been, world, union