Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Interestingly, there have been suggestions for an extra holiday to be
> celebrated to break up the four month from the August Bank Holiday to
> Christmas, and Trafalgar Day has been suggested, which is October 21st.
> Not sure how well this would go down with our EU partners, the French.
Why would they need to approve it? EU countries don't need to all
celebrate the same holidays, do they?
The US of course celebrates its victory over your country, but I don't
think you take offense. Do you?
Why not Armistice Day, November 11? The US continues to celebrate
that, though it's now called Veterans' Day. It's always seemed to
be redundant with the May holiday, Memorial Day (formerly called
Decoration Day, for some reason). It's also seemed strange to
celebrate the end of WWI but not of WWII. But celebrating one
victory, not the decisive one, in a war held two more than two
centuries ago, seems even stranger. Why not celebrate the victory
over the Spanish armada two centuries earlier yet while you're at it?
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