I like this idea very much.
Pocahontas was a gutsy woman and deserves to be honored.
-Melinda Skinner


> Each year, in, around, or at the time of the convening of the Commonwealth's
> General Assembly, I make an attempt to convince my representatives to
> introduce a bill that would establish March 17th as an official Virginia
> holiday in honor of Pocahontas. This is not a new idea and has been made, on
> and off, over the several past decades. My motives for pursuing this are
> quite narrow and direct and are not borne out of any special insight as to
> the worth of this maid to our history or any great understanding of or a
> special admiration for Virginia history. I simply want to position my
> adopted state such that when a certain action comes to past, she will be
> leading the "pack" and have a good shot at capturing the prize for herself.
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> It is my belief that some day, probably not in my time, this Nation will
> want to honor a woman with a National Holiday (as costly as they are to our
> productivity and how narrowly they reward mostly and nearly only the
> bureaucracy in time off at the expense to the real wealth-makers --- private
> enterprise).
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> What better candidate than Pocahontas -- woman, native American, and martyr?
> What better date? March the month she died. It has no National holiday.
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> It has been remarked that Jamestown failed. Obviously the idea of a new life
> in the New World did not. How much Pocahontas and those others that were
> paraded before the Court of Saint James had to do with keeping that idea
> alive? -- I don't know and don't much care. I'm sure there can be a whole
> series of arguments floated in this matter. In this particular exercise,
> it's just important to me that she died trying to complete her voyage back
> to her
> native land after touring England for New World promotional purposes -- she
> died in March -- she was a woman -- and she was, I presume, a complete,
> authentic, full blooded, native North American.
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> I invite those that see merit in seeking approval from the General Assembly
> of this to do what they can to influence the passage of legislation to enact
> a Virginia holiday in honor of Pocahontas.
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