Official Acknowledgment
As the holiday gains in popularity, some government agencies have begun to acknowledge its significance. The following is a non-comprehensive list of some government bodies that have chosen to recognize it:
- The US state of Michigan has officially recognized the occasion
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Famous quotes containing the word official:
“We were that generation called “silent,” but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period’s official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man’s fate.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)