for those of you who don't know: the LEE/JACKSON/KING day was the brilliant move by the VA legislature of creating a single holiday to honor Rbert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Martin Luther King.
There already was a Lee/Jackson Day, and then congress passed legislation that would cutt off some forms of fed funding to states that didn't adopt the MLK holiday, so to thumb their noses at the feds, VA tacked MLK day onto the Lee/Jackson day.
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