Holidays in the United States

Celebrates beginning of the calendar year. Festivities include counting down to 12:00 midnight on the preceding night.

This holiday is marked by fancy parties, fireworks, plenty of parades and other events

It is celebrated on the last

Monday in May

-On Memorial Day, cemeteries are crowded with families who come to place flowers on the graves of their loved ones.

- It is celebrated on the July 4th

-The occasion is also commemorated by colorful and noisy fireworks displays, parades and in some communities, patriotic speeches.

-The flag is flown, and red, white and blue ribbons are used for decoration at public ceremonies

• The celebrations are informaland the main purpose of theholiday is really to give peoplea day off of work and torecognize what working menand women contribute to thenation

Veterans Day, like Memorial Day, is a solemn occasion honoring men and women who have served in the military.

• Traditional foods are prepared for the feast- turkey, ham, cranberry sauce, corn dishes, breads, roll and pumpkin pie.

On this day many people go to churches, open their Christmas presents, decorate Christmas trees.Christmas Day is celebrated on the 25th of December

• It is the birthday of the American flag.

• The color they chose were red for courage, white for liberty and blue for loyalty.

• -This original design was created by George Washington and two other revolutionary leaders.

• Today, the flag still contains 13 stripes in honor of the original colonies. But now there are 50 stars (one for each state) arranged in nine row, alternating with six stars in one row and five in the next.

St. Valentine's Day, or simply Valentine's Day is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine, and was established by Pope Galerius I in 496 AD. Modern traditional celebration of love and romance, including the exchange of cards, candy, flowers, and other gifts.

-Green, the color most

associated with Ireland, is a

huge part of St. Patricks’ Day.

One popular American

tradition is a pinch anybody

who fails to wear green on this

holiday.

-rivers and fountains are dyed

green temporarily to celebrate

this special day for Irish –

Americans.

-There are various symbols associated

with Halloween. These include the

spooks, ghosts and walking skeletons that

represent the contact between the

spiritual and physical world and between

the living and the dead.

-. Bats, black cats and spiders are often

connected with this holiday. These

animals are associated with the night and

darkness and often accompany witches

and wizards.

A day that people commonly play tricks or

jokes on family, friends, and co-workers.

Mother’s Day is, a celebration of everything to do with mothers. It is common for people to buy expensive gifts for their mothers or, at the very least, to send them a card showing their appreciation.

-Father’s Day is all about showing fathers appreciation for what they do, for acknowledging the role of fathers in children’s lives.

-Father’s Day gifts tend to be, not surprisingly, manly in nature. It is common for people to buy their dads power tools, neckties, sporting equipment, and so forth to show appreciation.

- It is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the

United States, often regarded as the beginning of the

Christmas shopping season.

- Some people use this to make trips to see family

members or friends who live in other areas or to go on

vacation. Others use it to start shopping for the Christmas

season.