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Here's another poem, appropriate for the day.
At O'Hare, after a first jump west to California,
I thought my father was dying, as I waited
for the connecting flight. Being hungry
I ate pizza with the people eating pizza....
(Read the rest at The Writers Almanac.)
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I didn't know this:
Labor Day became a national holiday in 1894, partly because it was a convenient way for President Grover Cleveland to appease an angry workforce after he violently broke up a strike.
Read the whole story over at The Writer's Almanac.
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