Finland celebrates our 91st Independence Day
 

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.

A salute your way....
 

A salute your way.

What kind of celibrations are on tap in your neck of the woods?

Happy Independence Day to you and your country, Tuukka! I'm with Pete, would love to hear about some of your celebratory traditions.

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.

Happy Independence Day to you and your country Tuukka. My grandmother was a Finn, she knew the price of freedom.

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.

Happy Independence Day!


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Happy Independence Day to one of the bravest and proudest nations in Europe!

Happy Independence Day!

Many happy returns.

TR

Congrats to your nation and her countrymen on your honorable tradition of Sisu, Tuukka.

Congratulations Tuukka; we'll raise a glass for "past, present, and future".

Congrats and what a beautiful capital city you have!

Happy Independence Day, Tuukka. :D

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.

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

TR