Holidays/Holy Days?

Juneteenth should be a national holiday. I know, do we really need another holiday?  Agreed,  we may have too many but there are some I would happily give up in order to include it.  I would also love to see a national Day of Atonement. Not a day off. Because then people would use it to get drunk and party. Instead, a day in which the nation recognizes the need to consider our own personal failings as well as our social and national failings.  Ideally it would be a day off today to be spent in the kind of thoughtful contemplation the Puritans recognized as essential to what they regarded as a true Thanksgiving. Of course a Puritan Thanksgiving was extremely depressing, but a national Day of Atonement would be intended for internal contemplation and for a reaffirmation of the need to better ourselves as individuals and as a people.

Either of these becoming a reality may be extremely unlikely, but not impossible. I can hope.