Founder's Day

"If we are hell bent on changing the name of this traditional holiday in America (for nothing more than PC reasons), we should call it Founder's Day." 

Happy Columbus Day! Oops - forgot. Me bad. We are not supposed to call it Columbus Day. We are supposed to call it Indigenous People's Day, or something like that. Well, I have a much better idea. And I will explain in this post. If we are hell bent on changing the name of this traditional holiday in America (for nothing more than PC reasons), we should just call it Founder's Day. 

At the beginning of our western get away, we drove by Alexandria (MN). As we were zooming by on I-94, we saw an advertisement for the Runestone Museum. I remarked to my wife that I remembered going there as a young boy. The theory was that Leif Erikson led a group of explorers to this new world sometime around the turn of the first century. While here, they left a runestone. Is it real? The jury is still out. If it is true, Erikson discovered America many years before Columbus.  

Then again, the Bering Land Bridge is rumored to have existed about 13,000 years ago. Tribes from Asia followed the herds of game animals over the bridge, and into this new world. And many anthropologists believe this was the start of the Mexican people, the Eskimo people, and the Native American tribes.

Here is the bottom line. Around 1492, the world was starting to expand. More and more explorers were discovering sea travel. How to navigate. They discovered that maybe the Earth was not flat, and the explorers would sail off into darkness. Therefore, I am convinced that Columbus discovered this world by happenstance. If where not him, it would have been someone else soon thereafter.

Here is my bottom line. Who was here first? Maybe the Bering Straight crosiers. Maybe a civilization who existed long before Atlantis. We simply don't know. To keep everyone happy, can we just refer to this day (if we must), as Founder's Day?  Somebody founded this great land for crying in the beer! Who cares who it really was!