Columbus Day
Every year Columbus Day celebrations are held featuring the US Marine Corps Band and a wreath laying ceremony.
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Famous quotes containing the words columbus and/or day:
“Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“Sir Richard cried in his English pride,
We have fought such a fight for a day and a night
As may never be fought again!
We have won great glory, my men!
And a day less or more
At sea or ashore,
We diedoes it matter when?”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)