CALENDARS COULD BE MADE A TOTAL BLANK

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, February 7, 1993                   TAG: 9302050029
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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CALENDARS COULD BE MADE A TOTAL BLANK
One of the principal reasons our nation was settled was because people wanted to escape religious persecution and find a new land where they could worship as they pleased. Because of this our nation and our schools were established and founded on Christian and religious principles. For that reason, our government was set up. A government of the people, for the people and by the people and should remain thus.
Christmas, the greatest of all historical events, has been celebrated for hundreds of years. Our founding fathers did not find it offensive nor did they ever suggest removing it from our calendars, because they alone made this nation what it is today.
If they could appear today, not going unnoticed would be the gradual changes creeping in, such as removing the birthdays of some of our greatest heroes from our calendars, children in school not being allowed to decorate for Christmas, and now, Christmas and Easter has become the prevailing issue.
To me this is a step backward in time. Even Russia today is doing better than we, with Russia progressing, we seem to be regressing.
To be fair to everyone, why not delete all celebrated events from our calendars, and by that I mean EVERYTHING, leaving the calendar a TOTAL BLANK. In this way, no one event would interfere with the other and maybe people would be happy.
Someone said to me the other day, "Don't be surprised one morning if you wake up in "Burg" instead of "CHRISTIANSburg."\ Virginia Kirk\ Christiansburg

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB