Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> 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?
To many French, Napoleon was a great hero. He has a hero's tomb in
Paris.
>
> The US of course celebrates its victory over your country, but I don't
> think you take offense. Do you?
Actually, now we kind of celebrate getting the dead weight of a colony
that wouldn't pay its way off our necks. I notice its citizens still
don't like paying taxes, represented or not.
>
> Why not Armistice Day, November 11? The US continues to celebrate
> that, though it's now called Veterans' Day.
Uh, we do NOT "celebrate" Armistice Day. We "commemorate" it. Every
year. At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month
we have two minutes silence, in schools, in workplaces - I've even
seen traffic pull over on the street so that the drivers can observe
it. When it falls on a weekday, the two minute silence is observed on
the day, but the full works (church service, wreath laying, parade,
etc) is moved to the closest Sunday, which is called "Remembrance Sunday".
I was a little horrified when in California (San Francisco) to find
department stores holding "Armistice Day" sales, and to be sent an
email wishing one "A Happy Armistice Day!" doesn't half cause a major
brain disconnect. (as has happened to me several times in the last
few years)
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Jette Goldie
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