Columbus Day

I don’t remember every having the day off for Columbus Day while I was in school (kindergarten through university) and I definitely have never had the day off from work. And like most people in this country, I was taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America and opened the way for the colonies to be established and everything was just AWESOME! In the early grades, anyway. As I got older and learned more about Columbus and the true history of our country, skeletons and dirty laundry and all, the more I disliked this man.