>>>>>There are no official U.S. holidays between New Year's Day and Memorial Day.
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>>>>Unless you count President's Day in February. ;-)
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>>>See my reply to Tracy. Do you personally get this day off to commemorate the average of Washington and Lincoln's birthdays? I don't.
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>>But you said "official U.S. holidays." That means the ones the government recognizes, not the ones you get off.
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>OK, I misused "official." It still seems like a trifling distinction. How many of us work for the government? It's not a holiday most of us get off. Better?

I don't know about down there, but up here the country's single largest employer is the Federal Government.