Re: Savannah/Jamie
It may be a part of our history, but is it really one we need to keep? What future generations are going to understand what his birth meant to the generations before ours? How many in our generation even see it as a sign of hope and not just a day for parties?
Dad hates his own birthday, Savannah. It's just another day of obligations for him, another piece of his life sacrificed for everyone else's happiness. I've watched him attend those parties and speeches, then go home and shut himself up in his office with his trusty Ogden's for years. The family hasn't celebrated his birthday since you and I were in fifth year because he can't stand the thought of it.
Even now, when he's only twenty-three, he sees his birthday as something for everyone else, not something he celebrates for himself.