President Obama, in an Executive Order, declared May 1,
2012 to be Loyalty Day, a day when Americans are encouraged to display the
American flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The first Loyalty Day was
declared by President Eisenhower in 1959 and has been repeated each May 1 by
every President, including Ronald Reagan and two George Bushes. Loyalty Day
neither new nor is it evil. I only became aware of this holiday when, in the Hays Daily News, a reader disparaged Loyalty Day because it occurs on May 1 and
because Barak Obama is somehow involved. There is no UN Communist Socialist
Kenyan drone plot involved; a conclusion I was able to reach with three minutes
of research on the internet, while simultaneously watching an episode of
American Pickers.
