King's Birthday Holiday

We have just enjoyed a King's Birthday public holiday across most of the country.

Given the occasional campaigns for Australia to become a republic, and the frequent criticism regarding our British heritage, I wonder how many of us actually stop to think why we celebrate such a public holiday.
(I could probably ask the same question regarding other public holidays too - like Easter and Christmas and Australia Day.)

During the course of the holiday, while reflecting on how religiously and culturally divided we have become, my mind slipped back to those primary school days which began with a ceremony that included saying a pledge and saluting the Australian flag, usually with hand on heart.

The pledge went something like:
I love God and my Country,
I will honour the flag,
I will serve the King,
And cheerfully obey my teachers, parents and the laws.

A return to the past in schools, and maybe in councils and parliaments, or just on King's Birthday or Australia Day, might begin a healing process for our fractured country and rescue our lost sense of identity.
We do follow USA in many things. Why not in this act of patriotism as well?

This wild suggestion clearly labels me as a conservative (rather than a neoteric).

Blessings, Barry