Citizenship Day 2003
As you may or may not know, September 17th in the USA is Citizenship Day. It’s funny, I don’t know a single other person who knows anything about the holiday, let alone what days it occurs on.
A little background: Citizenship Day was established in February of 1952 by President Truman signed a bill establishing September 17th as Citizenship Day. The significance of the date is that September 17th is when the US Constitution was signed.
Anyway, the real focus of Citizenship Day is to celebrate those who became citizens during the prior year. Yet, not even the recent citizens of the US seem to know about today. When I mentioned it to some friends last year, I was greeted with a harsh, anti-immigration retort. Rather sad, really.
So, for anyone reading this who recently became a citizen of the US, I hope you knew what today was. Your natural-born neighbors most likely didn’t.