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American Festival American Festivals American Festivals 6月14日?国旗日（Flag Day） ?6月***日?父亲节（Fathers Day）（六月的第三个星期日） 7月4日?独立日(国庆)（Independence Day） 9月***日?劳动节（Labor Day）（九月的第一个星期一） 10月12日?哥伦布日（Columbus Day） 10月*日?退伍军人节（Veterans Day（十月的第四个星期一） 11月1日?万圣节（Halloween） 11月***日?感恩节（Thanksgiving Day）（十一月最后一个星期四） 12月25日?圣诞节（Christmas Presidents Day Americans celebrate?Presidents Day?on the 3rd Monday of February as a federal holiday commemorating the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We call?George Washington the father of our country?because he was the American general in the Revolutionary War who led us to victory against England. He was elected our first president. Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president. He kept our country together during the Civil War when the Southern states wanted to form a separate country. Lincoln freed the slaves with the?Emancipation Proclamation解放黑人奴隶宣言. February 14th is?Saint Valentines Day. Saint Valentines Day began in Europe and has been celebrated for hundreds of years. In the U.S. today people remember friends and sweethearts with cards called valentines, flowers, chocolates or small gifts. April Fools Day is a day to play jokes on others, No one knows how this holiday began but people think it first started in France. In the America, people play small jokes on their friends and any other people on the first of April. They may point down to your shoe and say, “ Your shoelace is untied.” If you believe them and look down to see, you are an April Fool then. Mothers Day?is observed in the United States in honor of mothers on the second Sunday in May. Julia Ward Howe wrote a Mothers Day proclamation in 1870. She wanted to have an international day when all mothers of the world would stand up and speak for peace, so their sons would not have to die in war. In 1907, Anna Jarvis proposed a day to remember all mothers. Today, Mothers Day is a holiday to remember mothers with cards, flowers and presents.