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Tuukka
12-06-2008, 06:36
Today we Finns celebrate our 91st Independence Day.

Today we also remember and honor those men and women who paid for that independence with blood and sweat and preserved it, in bitter fighting in the Winter, Continuation and Lapland wars.
Pete
12-06-2008, 06:48
A salute your way.

What kind of celibrations are on tap in your neck of the woods?
Gypsy
12-06-2008, 07:23
Happy Independence Day to you and your country, Tuukka! I'm with Pete, would love to hear about some of your celebratory traditions.
Tuukka
12-06-2008, 07:45
The biggest single celebration is the invitational gala at the Presidential palace.

I just took some candles to my grandparents grave, grandpa was a war veteran.

I think in many homes it is a more quiet celebration, over good food, sauna and perhaps a few glasses raised to toast.
Penn
12-06-2008, 16:35
Happy Independence Day to you and your country Tuukka. My grandmother was a Finn, she knew the price of freedom.
nmap
12-06-2008, 16:56
Happy Independence day!

I've read a little about the Finn's fight against the Soviets during WWII - as I understand it, heroism was a common virtue.
Red Flag 1
12-06-2008, 17:03
Happy Independence Day!


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The antihero
12-06-2008, 17:46
Happy Independence Day to one of the bravest and proudest nations in Europe!
The Reaper
12-06-2008, 18:31
Happy Independence Day!

Many happy returns.

TR
Razor
12-06-2008, 20:52
Congrats to your nation and her countrymen on your honorable tradition of Sisu, Tuukka.
Peregrino
12-07-2008, 14:11
Congratulations Tuukka; we'll raise a glass for "past, present, and future".
FILO
12-08-2008, 09:18
Congrats and what a beautiful capital city you have!
TOMAHAWK9521
12-08-2008, 09:57
Happy Independence Day, Tuukka. :D
Bill Harsey
12-08-2008, 10:10
Tuukka,
Congratulations on your Independence Day.

Good of you to honor your Grandparents.

Some day I will tell you what Col. Applegate told me what he learned about the use of a knife from a hard Finnish soldier.
The Reaper
12-08-2008, 10:16
Some day I will tell you what Col. Applegate told me what he learned about the use of a knife from a hard Finnish soldier.

Soviet soldiers are soft and squishy, and leak red stuff?:D

TR
82ndtrooper
12-08-2008, 11:24
Congrats on your Independence Day.
Bill Harsey
12-08-2008, 12:25
Soviet soldiers are soft and squishy, and leak red stuff?:D

TR

We had better not screw up Tuukka's thread.


The information came from the Col.'s OSS days and the answer is "yes".