Don't forget to celebrate: APRIL 6 (Prohibition ended at the stroke of midnight April 6, 1933) !!
WHY: To celebrate the end of Prohibition and the return to sanity for our great nation. On this date we thank those who helped change policy to allow for the return of our favorite beverage, BEER!
WHY: To celebrate the end of Prohibition and the return to sanity for our great nation. On this date we thank those who helped change policy to allow for the return of our favorite beverage, BEER!
"With preachers announcing that the millennium lay at hand, men and women began to swear off hard spirits; the yearning for perfection drew them until they were pledging total abstinence. Prohibition offered them [fundamentalists] their one link to national authority, the one public commitment to resisting moral decay."- James Morone ( Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History)
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